id: 157333 accession number: 1994.197 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.197 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:52.941000 The Garden Court, 1870–75. Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898). Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1994.197 title: The Garden Court title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1870–75 creation date earliest: 1870 creation date latest: 1875 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - British type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898) - artist Edward Burne-Jones and Morris met as undergraduates at Oxford University, where both studied theology, planning to enter the church. Instead, a mutual love of poetry and medieval art led these lifelong friends toward careers in art, design, and literature. A successful painter, Burne-Jones also contributed to Morris & Co. as a designer of stained glass and tapestry, as well as to the Kelmscott Press as an illustrator of books --- measurements: Sheet: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: white wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: English Romantic Art 1840-1920. Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, and Paintings opening date: 1994-10-05T04:00:00 English Romantic Art 1840-1920. Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, and Paintings. Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY (October 5-November 9, 1994). title: Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England opening date: 1995-05-31T04:00:00 Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 31-July 16, 1995). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00 British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013). title: Imagining the Garden opening date: 2015-10-24T00:00:00 Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London (1899). --- PROVENANCE Charles Edward Hallé [1846-1914], London date: ?-by 1914 footnotes: citations: (sale, Sotheby's, London, November 26, 1926, no. 22) date: 1926 footnotes: citations: (sale, Christie's, London, June 11, 1993, no. 93) date: 1993 footnotes: citations: (J. S. Maas and Son, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: probably 1993-1994 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1994- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones's socialist beliefs, identifying the weaver at right in the work as a personification of artistic labor, dormant in industrialized Victorian society. digital description: The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Edward Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well. wall description: The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS page number: url: Cartwright, Julia. The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart. London: Art Journal, 1894. page number: Mentioned: p. 24-5 url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/yale.39002088543872 Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Exh. Cat. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1899. page number: Mentioned: pp. xv, 18, no. 88 url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl2svu Bell, Malcolm. Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review. London: 1903 page number: Reproduced: opposite p. 66 url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31970027688560 De Lisle, Fortunée. Burne-Jones. London: Methuen, 1907. page number: Mentioned: p. 183, n. 1; Reproduced: opposite p. 139 url: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t4pk3zr9w Hartnoll, Julian and Christopher Wood. English Romantic Art 1840-1920, Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics and Paintings. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery Associates, 1994. page number: Mentioned: no. 29 url: Wildman, Stephen. Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995. page number: Mentioned: pp. 325-6, under no. 115 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr3939/page/n1 Wildman, Stephen and John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. page number: Mentioned: pp. 157-8, n. 1 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 11, 197-8, 295, no. 81; Reproduced: p. 198 url: Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Mentioned: pp. 122-5, 144, no. 41; Reproduced: pp. 123-5 url: Cheney, Liana de Girolami. Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. page number: Mentioned: P. 213; Reproduced: Pl. LIX url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.197/1994.197_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.197/1994.197_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.197/1994.197_full.tif