Title:
Aeneas slaying Mezentius (unfinished)
Maker:
Burne-Jones, Edward; draughtsman; British artist, 1833-1898
Category:
drawing
Name:
drawing
Date:
1873
School/Style:
British
Technique:
drawing (image-making)
Material(s):
graphite; medium
paper; support
Technique
Description:
graphite within ruled margin on paper
Dimension(s):
height, sheet size, 173, mm
width, sheet size, 172, mm
height, drawn area, 142, mm
width, drawn area, 138, mm
Acquisition:
given; 1927-01; Holliday, J. R.
Provenance:
The artist; Laurence W. Hodson; Hodson's sale Christie's, June 25th 1906, Lot 37, bt. J.R. Holliday for £430.10.0 (together with other 28 drawings numbered 1183)
Notes:
It is possible that these drawings were originally mounted by the artist. Signatures on groups of drawings e.g. nos. 1183.9-12 suggest that this is probable.
Inscription(s):
signature; lower right, below drawing; graphite; E B J
date; lower right, following the above; graphite; 1873
Exhibition(s):
Burne-Jones and William Morris; Designs for the Aeneid and the Kelmscott Chaucer. 1996-05-05 - 1996-09-01
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Related Object(s):
1183.1; Venus appearing to Aeneas before Carthage
1183.2; Aeneas flying from Troy
1183.3; Aeneas and the Harpies
1183.4; Death of Dido
1183.5; The Burning of the Ships
1183.6; Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld
1183.7; Lavinia in the Palace of Latinus
1183.8; Venus bringing Armour to Aeneas
1183.9; Iris and Turnus (unfinished)
1183.11; Aeneas at the tomb of Mezentius
1183.12; The Death of Turnus
1183.13; Juno
1183.14; Letter H: Cassandra, amid the flames of Troy
1183.15; Letter T: The Golden Bough
1183.16; Letter I: Helen Hidden
1183.17; Neptune
1183.18; Letter D: Troy Burning
1183.19; Tartarus, with the Punishment of the Damned
1183.20; Letter D: The Passing of Dido
1183.21; Letter E: The Ruin of Priam
1183.22; Letter P: Dido's Wedding
1183.23; Letter I: Figure of Rumour Blowing Horn
1183.24; Letter Q: Love and Dido
1183.25; Letter E: The Wooden Horse
1183.26; Letter T: Neptune and the Winds
1183.27; Letter I: Scylla
1183.28; Letter T: Andromache
1183.29; Letter P: Polyphemus
Accession:
Object Number: 1183.10
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 26838; input: 2001-04-11; modified: 2003-11-19)
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