The Wine of Circe - Female Nude - Study for Circe1866 – 1869 Accession number: 1904P136 Black chalk with touches of white on brown paper, cut out and laid down on second brown sheet. Width: 285 mm Height: 270 mm InformationOne of a series of eleven studies for the watercolour 'The Wine of Circe' (1863-69), now in a private collection. Burne-Jones appears to be concentrating on the bent shape of Circe as she pours her magical potion into the wine amphora, before moving to work on studies of her loose garment.
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