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Lot 379

After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., RWS, British 1833-1898-  Wood Nymph;  photogravure...

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Lot 379

After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., RWS, 
British 1833-1898- 
Wood Nymph; 
photogravure...

Starting Bid: £200

Estimate: £300 - £400

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Lot 379

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After Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., RWS, 
British 1833-1898- 

Wood Nymph; 

photogravure printed in sepia, published by The Berlin Photographic Company, London, c.1900, 36.2 x 36.5 cm. Together with a photogravure after Dante Gabriel Rossetti; 'Silence'. Two (2). 

Provenance: 
Private Collection, UK. 

Note: 
'The Wood-Nymph, and its companion The Sea-Nymph, were subjects and compositions which Burne-Jones explored over several years. The first concept of the sea nymph was as a contribution to William Morris's Mermaid fabric in 1875. The first iteration of the two nymphs as companion pieces was in a pair of drawings, dating from 1878 and sold [at Christie's, London] on 15 December 2010, lot 34. These were probably the pair Burne-Jones referred to in his work record in 1878: ‘three panels for low relief of wood nymph, water nymph and Hesperides’, intended to be executed in gesso for the front and ends of a cassone, possibly that made for Frances Horner in 1888, which certainly includes the Hesperides panel (now in Birmingham City Art Gallery). 
The designs were revisited in 1880-3 when Burne-Jones executed two large oils, intended to hang together. From this pair, The Wood-Nymph (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery in 1883) is now in the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, whilst The Sea-Nymph was sold [at Christie's, London] on 14 June 2005, lot 34.' (Burne-Jones Catalogue Raisonné online). 

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