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Jason with the Golden Fleece

Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898

Jason with the Golden Fleece

design area: 6 15/16 x 4 1/4 inches (176 x 108 mm); sheet: 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches (250 x 174 mm)
Graphite pencil on paper.
1975.49:1

Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.

Notes
Watermark: none.
One of four preparatory drawings, engraved by W. Spielmeyer, for two illustrations in William Morris, "The Life and Death of Jason", published in 1895 by the Kelmscott Press.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in blue ink on verso by Sir Sydney C. Cockerell, "Design for the frontispiece of the Kelmscott Press edition of / William Morris's Life and Death of Jason. Given by the artist, / Sir Edward Burne-Jones to R. Catterson-Smith who redrew it in / ink for the engraver - Given by R. C. S. to S. C. C. 1 April 1931".
Associated names
Smith, Robert Catterson, 1853-1938, former owner.
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, former owner.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Morris, William, 1834-1896. Life and death of Jason.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 253.
William Morris and the Art of the Book, no. 84B, pl. LXXXIX.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department