Live Auction 5934The Sunday Sale - The Collection of the Late Christopher Wood
Lot 89

AFTER SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, A.R.A.

Closed8 November 2009

Price Realised

GBP 3,000

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AFTER SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, A.R.A.
The Days of Creation
a set of six photogravures laid down on gold card and mounted within an elaborately carved and parcel-gilt oak frame, inscribed 'In six days The Lord Made Heaven and Earth The Sea and All that in There is'
21½ x 56 in. (142.5 cm.), overall, including the frame

Specialist note

The Days of Creation were originally cartoons executed in 1870 for the Church at Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire. They were subsequently worked up into finished oil paintings which were exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877 and now in the Fogg Art Museum, Boston.