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Pencil Drawing - Cupid and Psyche - Sketches for The reading of Apollo's Oracle to Psyche, Venus setting Psyche the Task of separating the Heap of Grain and Seed

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1927P648.7
Collection:Fine Art Prints and Drawings
Date:1865 - 1865

Maker Information

Artist:Sir Edward Burne-Jones - View biography for Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Notes

From a bound volume containing 86 studies for illustrations to 'The Story of Cupid and Psyche' made to accompany the poem in William Morris' 'The Earthly Paradise'.

This study is closer to the final conception then the other studies in Birmingham's collection. In the final wood engraving, the smoking altars and the statue in the niche on the right are omitted, and two figures are added on the extreme right.

Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
School/Style:Cupid and Psyche
Medium:Pencil on cream-toned paper. Bound.
Material(s):Paper

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Dimensions

Height:170 mm
Width:127 mm

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