By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
EB-J self-portrait sprawled on his back over a painting and collapsed easel on the floor in an illustrated Love letter to Mrs Gaskell
Pen and ink on The Grange headed paper
Dimensions: 18.5 cm x 23 cm
Collection Categories
Caricatures, Amusing and Personal drawings, Manuscript documents, Portraits and self-portraits of Burne-Jones, Works on Paper / Vellum
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Mrs Helen Mary “May” Gaskell (née Helen Mary Melville, Mrs. Henry Gaskell) 1940 by descent to 1981
Sotheby's Belgravia 1981-1981 Highly Important Victorian Paintings 23 March 1981 lot29
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and 3, 13, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 75, 192, 203, 238, 262, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 21-66, 68-71, 75-116, 120-122, 124-129, 132, 134-150, 153-154, 156-168, 170, 172-177, 179-189, 189-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 237-240, 242, 244-249, 251, 254-255, 257, 259-262, 264-272, 274-276, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-330, 334-350, 357-361, 363-385, 387-389, 395, 398-400, 402, 405-416, 418-445, 451-462, 464-472, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 491-498, 500-501, 504-517, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536