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"tombstone": "The Garden Court, 1870\u201375. Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833\u20131898). Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache; matted: 54.3 x 81.4 x 0.8 cm (21 3/8 x 32 1/16 x 5/16 in.); frame: 61.3 x 88.9 x 3.2 cm (24 1/8 x 35 x 1 1/4 in.); image: 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",
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"title": "English Romantic Art 1840-1920. Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics, and Paintings",
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"title": "Imagining the Garden",
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"title": "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art",
"description": "Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2024-05-04T04:00:00"
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"description": "Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart. Burlington Fine Arts Club, London (1899).",
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"description": "Charles Edward Hall\u00e9 [1846-1914], London",
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"description": "(sale, Sotheby's, London, November 26, 1926, no. 22)",
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"did_you_know": "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.",
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"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.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 29",
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"citation": "Wildman, Stephen. Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cNew Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art\u2019s Permanent Collection,\u201d February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"citation": "Wildman, Stephen and John Christian. Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.",
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.",
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"citation": "Cheney, Liana de Girolami. Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.",
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