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This drawing was most likely for Series One of 'Pygmalion and the Image', which had been commissioned by the sitter's mother, Euphrosyne Ionides Cassavetti (currently in the Collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber).

  • Purchased through the Reproductions Fund, 1924.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
E B J 1870/STUDY FOR GALATEA/IN THE SERIES OF/PYGMALION
Name bottom right Handwritten 1870 Pencil
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Burne-Jones: dal Preraffaelismo al Simbolismo
37 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome 1987 - 1987
 
Edward Burne-Jones: Pygmalion Series - Centenary Exhibition
no cat. Laing Art Gallery 2004-10-02 - 2005-01-16
 

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. 94
 
Visions of Love and Life
Stephen Wildman 1995 Art Services International p. 306; fig. 98
 
Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
John Christian, Stephen Wildman 1998 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York p. 221
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 78

Associated people

Name Type
William Morris Author
Maria Zambaco Artist's model

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