Edward Coley Burne-Jones
1833-1898
Study for the Fiery Furnace
Design area: 3 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (97 x 130 mm); sheet: 4 5/16 x 5 5/8 inches (109 x 143 mm)
Black chalk and graphite pencil on brown paper.
1975.48
Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Part of the abandoned series of illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of the Bible, ca. 1870-1880.
Inscribed in another hand in black ink in upper left margin, "The fiery furnace"; inscribed on verso at upper margin, "[N]ebnechadnezzar's dream".
Part of the abandoned series of illustrations to the Kelmscott edition of the Bible, ca. 1870-1880.
Inscribed in another hand in black ink in upper left margin, "The fiery furnace"; inscribed on verso at upper margin, "[N]ebnechadnezzar's dream".
Summary
Margin drawn on verso in black chalk for sketch of "Nebnechadnezzar's dream", never executed.
Associated names
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 252-253.
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