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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 |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Imago Amoris/ let nimbus quite [cut off]/ Imago Alcestis Martyris/ in black letters/ lining/ lining/ lining/ lining |
Caption |
Front |
Handwritten |
- |
Pencil/ pen. handwritten by the artist |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Morris & Company in Cambridge |
76 (7) |
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
1980-09-30 - 1980-11-16 |
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William Morris and the Middle Ages |
167 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
1984-09-28 - 1984-12-08 |
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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 |
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The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle |
A Charles Sewter |
1975 |
Yale University Press, New Haven |
Vol. II: pp. 45, 207 |
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William Morris Tiles |
Hilary Myers, Richard Myers |
1996 |
Richard Dennis, Somerset |
fig. 126 |
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Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer |
John Christian, Stephen Wildman |
1998 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
p. 97 |
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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
Associated people
Associated places
Name |
Type |
Peterhouse College, Cambridge |
Made for |
Associated organisations
Name |
Type |
Morris & Co |
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