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The Summons: Study for the Head of Gawaine

1893
Not on view
Burne-Jones enrolled at Oxford in 1853 only to leave two years later to train under the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriele Rossetti. Burne-Jones was soon recognized as a leading artist in his own right. Toward the end of his career, the Australian mining engineer William Knox d’Arcy commissioned him to design a set of tapestries depicting the legend of the Quest for the Holy Grail. This drawing is a preparatory study for the figure of Gawaine in the tapestry The Summons.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Summons: Study for the Head of Gawaine
  • Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham)
  • Date: 1893
  • Medium: Fabricated black crayon on paper
  • Dimensions: 15 x 9 in. (38.1 x 22.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.1.878
  • Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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