Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

This image began as one of a series of thirteen stained glass designs illustrating the Story of Tristram and Iseult, as told in Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur', one of Burne-Jones's favourite books. Walter Dunlop of Bradford commissioned the windows for his music room at Harden Grange, near Bingley, Yorkshire. They were made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company in 1862. The windows are now in the collection of Bradford City Art Gallery. Burne-Jones worked up the preliminary cartoon into this watercolour. There are three studies for the design in Birmingham's collection.

The story depicted is from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In love with Sir Tristram but promised in marriage to King Mark, Iseult tries to kill herself but is prevented from doing so by King Mark, who grips her arm and forces her to drop the sword.Burne-Jones's watercolours often make heavy use of gum arabic in the dark areas, creating a density and richness more often associated with oil painting than with watercolour.

Presented by Sir John Middlemore, 1912.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	Sir Edward Burne-Jones	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Paintings and Drawings of the 1860s Period
98	Tate Gallery, London	1923-04-27 - 1923-07-29

British Painting
104	Secession Galleries, Vienna	1927 - 1927

Sussex Artists: Past & Present
43	Hove Museum of Art	1951 - 1951

Burne Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones
77	Hayward Gallery, London	1975-11-05 - 1976-01-04
77	Southampton City Art Gallery	1976 - 1976
77	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	1976 - 1976

Pre-Raphaelite Women
6	Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery	1985-09-04 - 1986-01-02
6	Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery	1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19

Burne-Jones and His Followers
2	Isetan Museum of Art Japan	1987-02-05 - 1987-02-23
2	Japanese venue	- - 1987-06

Bodley, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites in Scarborough
55	Scarborough Art Gallery	1988-08-20 - 1988-10-01

Visions of Love and Life
59	Seattle Art Museum, US	1995-03-09 - 1996-05-07
59	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
59	Delaware Art Museum	1995-08-11 - 1995-09-15
59	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston	1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
59	High Museum of Art, Atlanta	1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
59	Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery	1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29

Hidden Burne Jones
ex. cat.	Leighton House, London (only)	2007-10-14 - 2008-01-25

The Pre-Raphaelites
142	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review
Malcolm Bell	1892	George Bell & Sons, London	p. 30

Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones
Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones	1904	Macmillan, London	Vol. I: p.249

Burne-Jones
Fortunee de Lisle	1904	Methuen, London	p. 67

Burne-Jones
Bill Waters, Martin Harrison	1973	Barrie & Jenkins, London	pp. 54-56

The Stained Glass of William Morris & His Circle
A Charles Sewter	1975	Yale University Press, New Haven	Vol. II: pp. 26-27

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. 74

The Pre-Raphaelites
	2009	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm	cat.142, p.214; fig.26