Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1833-1898
Astrologia, 1865
Watercolour, pencil and bodycolour, heightened with gum arabic, on paper laid on canvas
Unframed: 53.5 x 45.8 cm., 21 x 18 in.
Framed: 84 x 76 cm.; 33 x 30 in.
Framed: 84 x 76 cm.; 33 x 30 in.
WB4675
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Edward Broadhurst, by 1893;Private collection, Mrs Blanche Watney and thence by descent to O.V. Watney Esq;
Christie's, London, 4 July 1967, lot 58;
Agnew's Gallery, London, 1967;
Private Collection, J. Gifford, by 1975;
Agnew's Gallery, London, 1984;
Christies, London, 11 July 2019, Lot 12;
Private Collection (purchased from the above)
Exhibitions
London, Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1865, no. 18;London, New Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Edward Burne-Jones, 1893, no. 20;
London, New Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1899, no. 17;
London, Hayward Gallery; Southampton, Southampton City Art Gallery; and Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, The Arts Council of Great Britain, The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 5 November 1975 - 11 April 1976, no. 85, lent by J. Gifford Esq;
Stockholm, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Edward Burne-Jones Prerafaeliterna & Norden (The Pre-Raphaelites and the North), with tour to Kode Bergen Art Museum, September 2019 - May 2020, no. 19
Literature
M. Townsend and R. Hutton, Review of the Old Watercolour Society OWCS, 29 April 1865, p. 174Spectator, 29 April 1865, p. 468;
Art Journal, 1865, p. 174;
E. C. Clifford, Broadlands as It Was, 1890, p. 54;
M. Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones: An Illustrated Record and Review 1st Edition, London, 1892, p. 33;
F. G. Stephens, The Athenaeum, 1893;
Fortunée de Lisle, Burne-Jones, 1904, p. 75;
G. Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, London, 1904, p. 302.
C. Wood, Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), London, 1998, p. 10, illustrated p. 11.
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