Seated Girl with Zither
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - London 1898)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1885 (inscribed)
Materials
Coloured chalk, heightened with gold on fawn/buff paper, now stained brown by lignite
Measurements
760 x 585 mm
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1214770
Summary
Coloured chalk heightened with gold drawing on fawn/buff paper (now stained brown by lignite), Seated Girl with Zither by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - London 1898), inscribed: lower right, in gold: to NH/fromEBJ 1885. Possibly Laura Tennant (d. 1886), who married Alfred Lyttleton in 1885 and who was the model for The Mermaids/Depths of the Sea, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886.
Provenance
Purchased from Mr Arthur Grogan (1924 - 2011), 1983
Makers and roles
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - London 1898) , artist