In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 140 × 166 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
- Reference
- A00099
Display caption
These studies are connected with the triptych of 'The Adoration of the Kings and the Annunciation', which is on display in Room 9 and which was originally painted for St Paul's Church, Brighton. Dissatisfied with his first attempt, Burne-Jones subsequently completed a second version of the composition for the church, which is currently at Brighton Art Gallery. Following established Pre-Raphaelite practice, he used his friends as models for the triptych, but there is some debate as to whether it was Jane Morris or his wife, Georgiana, who posed as the Virgin. Two of the studies appear to show Georgiana, while another depicts the head of one of the female attendants in the 'Adoration'.
Gallery label, August 2004
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