Live Auction 21955British and European Art
SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1833-1898)
Lot 20

SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1833-1898)

An illustration to 'The Golden Legend'

Closed14 December 2023

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GBP 3,000–5,000

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SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1833-1898)
An illustration to 'The Golden Legend'
pencil and black and white chalk on buff paper
8½ x 5¾ in. (21.5 x 14.5 cm.)

with The Stone Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where purchased by
L.S. Lowry, R.A.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 15 July 2011, lot 15, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

A large quarto edition of William Caxton's translation of Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend was printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press in 1892. Burne-Jones made two illustrations, one showing souls being welcomed into heaven by angels, the other depicting the Expulsion from Eden. The present drawing is a version of the former design.