Beschreibung:

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898) An album containing eighty drawings, including caricatures of the artist, William Morris and Val Prinsep, humorous drawings of devils and a 'wallypug', and sketches of figures, heads, birds, horses, a cat, flowers, drapery, armour, head-dresses, wings, books, and other decorative details, among them studies for The Wheel of Fortune , The Golden Stairs , The Arming of Perseus , The Briar Rose and other paintings; together with a letter to Mrs Coronio regarding a dress for a model, a proof of a woodcut designed by Burne-Jones for Morris's Love is Enough , two drawings of birds by another hand, two printed texts - The Tale of Troy and A Herald of Spring - illustrated by Walter Crane and an etched bookplate for H.G.F. Odsey, possibly by C.W. Sherborn two of the caricatures inscribed 'Euston Sq.', one drawing inscribed 'wait for answer/Mrs Coronio', another on an envelope addressed to 'Jessie Wright/18 Polygon/NW', all the inscriptions being by Burne-Jones pencil, pen and ink, crayon and watercolour; sixty drawings mounted on pages of blue paper, the rest tipped in; the album bound in half pigskin over oak boards, blindstamped in the gothic style, with the binder's mark inside the back cover the drawings of various sizes from 3.7/8 x 2.7/8 in. (9.8 x 7.3 cm.) to 14¾ x 10½ in. (37.5 x 26.6 cm.), the album 12¼ x 9½ in. (31.1 x 24.1 cm.) (80)