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This is one of six tile designs commissioned from Morris & Co by the architect George Edmund Street in 1864 for St Peter's Church in Bournemouth. The drawing is squared up as an aid for enlargement, and shows Christ in a room of Renaissance architecture, but with less spatial compression than in 'Marriage Feast at Cana'. On the reverse is a slight pencil sketch with architectural details.

  • Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
carry on the frieze/ pillars like the one [illegible]/ cap [cut off]/ flowers/ some to [illegible] over from the steps
Notes Front Handwritten - instructions/ notes written in pencil. handwritten by the artist
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Morris & Company Tiles
71 William Morris Gallery 1996-09-14 - 1997-01-05
 

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. 145
 
William Morris Tiles
Hilary Myers, Richard Myers 1996 Richard Dennis, Somerset p. 72, fig. 100
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 94

Associated people

Name Type
George Edmund Street Commissioned by

Associated places

Name Type
Church of St Peter, Bournmounth Made for

Associated organisations

Name Type
Morris & Co Realised by

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