Opaque with a vengeance: Burne-Jones's Later Watercolours, 1880-98
February 2019
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Selected Publications
The Burlington Magazine (February 2019) 161, no. 1391
Selected Authors/Editors
Dr Fiona Mann
Selected Artists
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Selected Artworks
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (Birmingham, the model for the beggar maid was Frances Graham and the modelfor the singer is probably Jessie Keene (b.1872), or possibly her older sister Laura (b.1867/8), who also modelled for painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s.)
Sketchbook V & A E.7-1955 of 118 pages with designs for the Graham Piano under lid, Terra Omniparens and The Heart of the Rose, The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness, the bronze bas-reliefs The Nativity and The Entombment for the tomb of William Howard, 8th Earl of Carlisle with designs for stained glass and for fan-mounts and other decorative motifs
Nude study for the Beggar Maid in King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (the final model for the beggar maid was Frances Graham and the model for the singer is probably Jessie Keene (b.1872), or possibly her older sister Laura (b.1867/8), who also modelled for painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s)
Record of Burne-Jones’s order for long Japanese brushes, 30th November 1889, ledger of Charles Roberson
Cupid's Hunting Fields - Cupid's Hunting Ground (Chicago)
The Perseus Series: The Baleful Head (Southampton)
The Star of Bethlehem watercolour
The Fall of Lucifer (Expulsion of Lucifer from Heaven)