The Annunciation
1862
Accession number: 1931P64
Brown wash, Indian ink, and watercolour over pencil on paper.
Width: 786 mm
Height: 788 mm
Information
This magnificent cartoon was apparently designed as a tile panel. It was adapted for stained glass, as the centre of the west rose window at St. Martin's, Scarborough, one of the Morris firm's early commissions.There exists another later version (c. 1866-67) that Burne-Jones executed as a design for stained glass (current location unknown), that was exhibited at the Stone Gallery, Newcastle, in the autumn of 1969 (cat. no. 17), showing both figures in profile. Also, there is another preliminary version of this in the Tate collection (no. 4343). This cartoon also appears in the Morris & Co Windows Book, 1940P604.1, as number 7.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AVE: MARIA : GRATIA: PLENA : DOMINUS : EST: TECUM | ||||
| Inscription | middle centre | Written | - | caption. black ink, written by the artist |
Exhibitions
| Catalogue No. | Venue | Date(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Decorative Art of Burne-Jones and Morris | |||
| 14 | Midlands Federation Travelling Exhibtion | 1957 - 1957 | |
| Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones | |||
| 73 | Hayward Gallery, London | 1975-11-05 - 1976-01-04 | |
| 73 | Southampton City Art Gallery | 1976-01-24 - 1976-02-22 | |
| 73 | City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham | 1976-03-10 - 1976-04-11 | |
| Bodley, Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites in Scarborough | |||
| 9 | Scarborough Art Gallery | 1988-08-20 - 1988-10-01 | |
| Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Painting from Birmingham | |||
| 66 | Seattle Museum of Art, USA | 1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07 | |
| 66 | Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16 | |
| 66 | Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington | 1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15 | |
| 66 | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas | 1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02 | |
| 66 | High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia | 1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10 | |
| 66 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery | 1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29 | |
| Morris & Company Tiles | |||
| 59 | William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow | 1996-09- ? - 1997-01-05 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 172 | Nationalmuseum, Sweden | 2009-02-26 - 2009-05-24 | |
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. 150 |
| The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle | |||
| A C Sewter | 1975 | Yale University Press, New Haven | Vol. I: figs. 69-70; Vol. 2, P. 169 |
| William Morris Tiles | |||
| Hilary Myers, Richard Myers | 1996 | Richard Dennis, Somerset | p. 60; fig. 70 |
| The 'Cartoon Book' and Morris & Company's sale of Burne-Jones's cartoons in 1901-1904 | |||
| Douglas Schoenherr | 2005, Volume XXIX | The Journal of Stained Glass, London | p. 115 |
| Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery | |||
| 2007 | Dan Giles, Ltd., London | p. 85 | |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | |||
| 2009 | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm | cat.172, p.226 | |
Provenance
| Fairfax Murray Collection; James Richardson Holliday, 1912. |
Associated people
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Georgiana Burne-Jones | Artist's model |
Associated places
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| St Martins-on-the-Hill, Scarborough | Made for |
Associated organisations
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| Morris & Co | Realised by |
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