A Fragment from an Antique Frieze

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Artist, British, 1833 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white gouache on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.4 x 24.1 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(J.S. Maas & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, December 1972-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • La Bella Mano: Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Decorative Arts, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richond, 1982, no. 30.

1985

  • The English Avant-Garde of the 1880's: Aesthetes, Rebels and Feminists, University of Virginia Library, Richmond, 1985.

1993

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 51.

1996

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Inscriptions

lower left in black chalk: EBJ.; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 7561 / MOUNT

Wikidata ID

Q64631862

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