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Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Cupid Flying to His Palace by Night
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© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
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Basic Information | | Accession Number: | 1927P602 |
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| Collection: | Fine Art Prints and Drawings |
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| Date: | 1865 - 1865 |
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Maker Information | | Artist: | Sir Edward Burne-Jones - View biography for Sir Edward Burne-Jones |
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Notes | One of eleven tracings in Birmingham's collection for 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' made to accompany the poem in William Morris' 'The Earthly Paradise'
This study is misidentified by Whitley in his 1939 Catalogue, as being of 'Cupid flying to Olympus to beg for Immortality for Psyche'. It is actually the left portion of the composition relating to for 'Cupid Flying by Night to his Palace, as Psyche Awaits Him' (1927P601). This sketch is identified using the the completed studies located in the 'Cupid and Psyche' sketchbook also in Birmingham's collection (1927P648).
| | Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927. |
Further Information | | Production Period: | 19th century |
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| Medium: | Pencil on tracing paper (for engraving). |
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| Material(s): | Paper |
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Associated People | | Dimensions | | Height: | 107 mm |
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| Width: | 85 mm |
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1927P648.24 - Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Rough Sketch of Cupid flying
1927P648.23 - Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Rough Sketches Cupid flying, Psyche awaiting Cupid
1927P648.21 - Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Sketch of Cupid flying
1927P648.20 - Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Sketch of Cupid flying, Psyche awaiting Cupid
1927P601 - Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Study of Psyche for Psyche awaiting Cupid
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