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CHERUB CLIMBING A TREE Pencil, 12 x 9.5 (5 x 4)
SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Provenance:
Mrs. Sidney Colvin: Cecil French
Exhibited:
Fulham 1967 (79); Fulham 1983 (14)
An
alarmed and tubby cherub, facing to right, sits astride the
fragile bough of a rudimentary tree below which is a small
pond.
A
note on the original backboard written by Mrs. Sidney Colvin
read "I saw him do this". Sidney (later Sir Sidney) Colvin
(1845-1927) the art critic and curator, was a friend of Burne-Jones
and the author of the first appreciation of his work, in The
Portfolio, February, 1870, pp. 17-22. He was successively
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1876-83, and
Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, 1883-1912.
This
small sketch is one of many of the humorous impromptu drawings
and caricatures which he drew throughout his life to amuse
friends, children and correspondents.
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