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Illustration for "The White Dwarf" (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898

Illustration for "The White Dwarf" (for Archibald Maclaren's "The Fairy Family")

London, 1854-1856.
3 13/16 x 3 3/4 inches (97 x 95 mm)
Pen and black ink on paper.
1982.10:30a

Purchased as the gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Lunette-shaped illustration depicting winged angel kneeling over supine man, his head supported by her lap, depicting the verse ""Less drearily now will pass away / The long, long night, and the longer day, / And pleasant my bitter crust will be / When shared, companion sweet, by thee!".
Originally in the Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857.
Associated names
Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826, former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884. Fairy family.
Bibliography
Maclaren, Archibald. The Fairy Family. London: Dalrymple Press, 1985, p. 98 (repr.)
Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, I, London, 1904, 100, 120, 135-136.
John Christian, "Burne-Jones Studies, I: Burne-Jones's Drawings for 'The Fairy Family,'" Burlington Magazine, cxv, no. 839, February 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
M. Harrison and W. Waters, Burne-Jones, London, 1973, 16, figs. 15-22.
Burne-Jones, Hayward Gallery, London, and elsewhere, 1975, no. 9, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department