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Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857

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Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898

Album of Illustrations for Archibald MacLaren's "The Fairy Family : a Series of Ballads & Metrical Tales Illustrating the Fairy Faith of Europe," London, 1857

London, 1854-1856.
Illustrations: approx. 5 5/8 x 3 13/16 inches (144 x 96 mm); decorated words and intitials: approx. 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches (308 x 290 mm)
Pen and black ink, graphite, gray wash, occasional touches of watercolor; some corrections in white.
1982.10:1-46

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

Notes
Watermark: none.
Contains 41 illustrations and 32 decorated words or initials, originally on 47 leaves (1 blank), bound in paper covered boards, now matted and cataloged separately as 1982.10:1-46 (73 records).
Twenty-one illustrations inscribed with portions of the text in pen and black ink or graphite.
The illustrations, executed between 1854 and 1856, are the earliest surviving drawings by the artist and include one of the 3 designs reproduced in the book.
Associated names
Maclaren, Archibald, 1755-1826, former owner.
Koch, Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson), donor.
Maclaren, Archibald, 1819-1884. Fairy family.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 242-243.
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