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

The Perseus Series - Study of Wings for 'The Death of Medusa'

By Sir Edward Burne-Jones

1881

Accession number: 1927P447

Pencil on paper.

Width: 247 mm

Height: 364 mm

Study of two out-spanned wings, top left and bottom right

Information

One of several studies in Birmingham's Collection for the Perseus Series of paintings (Series I is now in the Stattsgalerie, Stuttgart; Series II in the Southampton City Art Gallery).

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
E.B.J./ 1881/WINGS FOR/GORGONS/ IN PERSEUS
Title	bottom left	Handwritten	1881	In pencil. in the artist's own hand

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham
19	Hong Kong Museum of Art	1984 - 1984

Burne-Jones: dal Preraffaellismo al Simbolismo
75	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome	1986 - 1986

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. 100

Der Perseus-Zyklus von Edward Burne-Jones
Kurt Lochner	1973	Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart	p. 103

Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
John Christian, Stephen Wildman	1998	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	p. 228

Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
	2007	Dan Giles, Ltd., London	p. 77