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One of seven designs in Birmingham's collection for Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women', six of which were used in the bay window of the Combination Room at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

  • Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Morris & Company in Cambridge
76 (3) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1980-09-01 - 1980-11-01
 
William Morris and the Middle Ages
168 Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester 1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08
 
Burne-Jones: dal Preraffaelismo al Simbolismo
88 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, rome 1986-10-07 - 1987-01-03
 
Morris, Burne-Jones and Chaucer
no cat. William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow 1991-07 - 1991-10
 
L'Amore: dall'Olympico all'Alcova
3.12 Mole Antonelliana, Turin 1992-05-30 - 1992-10-04
 
The Fabric of Myth
- Compton Verney 2008-06-21 - 2008-09-07
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p. 133
 
The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle
A Charles Sewter 1975 Yale University Press, New Haven Vol. I: fig. 203; Vol. II: pp. 45, 207
 
William Morris Tiles
Hilary Myers, Richard Myers 1996 Richard Dennis, Somerset fig. 130
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Elisa Korb, Tessa Sidey 2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 64

Provenance

Charles Fairfax Murray

Associated people

Name Type
William Morris Associated with
Geoffrey Chaucer Author

Associated places

Name Type
Peterhouse College, Cambridge Made for

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