Lot Essay
A photograph of an old label attached to the reverse of the frame reads: 'By E.B.J./of great value/given me by Exors either of his/or Sir Philip's Estate, after 1920/probably/Perhaps noted on one/of them/TMR'.
A study for The Sirens (Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida), a picture designed in 1870 but still not finished at Burne-Jones's death twenty-eight years later. The drawing can be dated to the late 1880s when the artist had a phase of using this particular type of chalk and paper.
T.M. Rooke was Burne-Jones's studio assistant from 1869. According to the inscription in his hand, he was given the drawing by the executors either of Burne-Jones himself or of his son Philip (died 1926).
A drawing by Burne-Jones with the same provenance was sold in these Rooms on 14 June 1992, lot 79
A study for The Sirens (Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida), a picture designed in 1870 but still not finished at Burne-Jones's death twenty-eight years later. The drawing can be dated to the late 1880s when the artist had a phase of using this particular type of chalk and paper.
T.M. Rooke was Burne-Jones's studio assistant from 1869. According to the inscription in his hand, he was given the drawing by the executors either of Burne-Jones himself or of his son Philip (died 1926).
A drawing by Burne-Jones with the same provenance was sold in these Rooms on 14 June 1992, lot 79