SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1833-1898 LONDON)
Lot 173 Property from a New York Academic’s Collection

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

Two scenes from the life of St. Cecilia

Closed1 February 2024

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SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1833-1898 LONDON)
Two scenes from the life of St. Cecilia
graphite, lightly squared
4 7⁄8 x 7 in. (12.4 x 17.8 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 28 June 2000, lot 22.

Specialist note

Related to two of three panels of stained glass depicting the life of St Cecilia in a window in the North Choir aisle of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, dated to 1874-5. Stephen Wildman has suggested that the unusual squaring of these drawings may either relate to Burne-Jones's large workload as the only figure designer to Morris & Company in 1875, leaving him dependent on studio assistants to turn designs into workshop cartoons, or to the one recorded re-use of the designs, for a domestic commission in 1883.