Study of hair for the 'Mirror of Venus' Study for the head of the girl on the left of the 'Mirror of Venus'
Draughtsman: Burne-Jones, Edward
History note: Christie's Sale, 5th June, (?258), bt. Ricketts and Shannon
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 177 mm
Width: 227 mm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
In the finished picture, now in the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, none of the girls have such long hair as in these studies. There is, however, another untraced version of the subject, in watercolour, which was begun in 1868, some five years before the large oil at Lisbon. The latter was completed in 1877, so that studies for the two pictures span a possible nine years. These studies (see also 2001a and b), and also 2016, are stylistically characteristic of the very early 1870s and so could be related to either of the 'Mirror of Venus' pictures.
Support composed of cartridge paper
Drawing (image-making) : Graphite on white cartridge paper
Accession number: 2001c
Primary reference Number: 26200
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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