The Entombment

Sir Edward Burne-Jones British

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Burne-Jones conveys deep emotion in this design for George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle. When the earl’s father died in 1879, he planned a monument to his parents, Mary and Charles Wentworth Howard, at Lanercost Priory, Cumbria. A bronze Nativity plaque commemorated his mother, who died in 1834 after giving birth to her son, and an Entombment honored his father. For the latter, a confined space filled with curving forms encloses the mourners and expresses a profound sense of grief, at once Christian and universal. The sculptor Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834–1890) translated the designs into bronze.

The Entombment, Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham), Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) on green paper

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The Entombment, Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham), Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) on green paper
The Entombment, Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham), Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) on green paper
The Entombment, Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham), Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) on green paper

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