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Source Description
The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Edward Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well.
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157333
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The Garden Court
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drawing
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157333
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drawing
title
The Garden Court
description
The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Edward Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well.
date
1870–75
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79973452
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1399
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Drawing
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1
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Matted: 54.3 x 81.4 x 0.8 cm (21 3/8 x 32 1/16 x 5/16 in.); Frame: 61.3 x 88.9 x 3.2 cm (24 1/8 x 35 x 1 1/4 in.); Image: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.)
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England, 19th century
accession
1994.197
Source extras
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graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
tombstone
The Garden Court, 1870–75. Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898). Graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache; matted: 54.3 x 81.4 x 0.8 cm (21 3/8 x 32 1/16 x 5/16 in.); frame: 61.3 x 88.9 x 3.2 cm (24 1/8 x 35 x 1 1/4 in.); image: 32.3 x 60.2 cm (12 11/16 x 23 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1994.197
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white wove paper
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DR - British
didYouKnow
Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones's socialist beliefs, identifying the weaver at right in the work as a personification of artistic labor, dormant in industrialized Victorian society.
citations
1
citation
Cartwright, Julia. <em>The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bart</em>. London: Art Journal, 1894.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 24-5
2
citation
<em>Exhibition of Drawings and Studies by Edward Coley Burne-Jones.</em> Exh. Cat. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1899.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. xv, 18, no. 88
3
citation
Bell, Malcolm. <em>Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review</em>. London: 1903
page_number
Reproduced: opposite p. 66
4
citation
De Lisle, Fortunée. <em>Burne-Jones</em>. London: Methuen, 1907.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 183, n. 1; Reproduced: opposite p. 139
5
citation
Hartnoll, Julian and Christopher Wood.<em> English Romantic Art 1840-1920, Pre-Raphaelites, Academics, Symbolistes: Drawings, Watercolours, Graphics and Paintings.</em> Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery Associates, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 29
6
citation
Wildman, Stephen. <em>Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England</em>. Exh. Cat. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1995.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 325-6, under no. 115
7
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, “New Acquisitions Enter the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection,” February 14, 1995, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
8
citation
Wildman, Stephen and John Christian. <em>Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 157-8, n. 1
9
citation
DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 11, 197-8, 295, no. 81; Reproduced: p. 198
10
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 122-5, 144, no. 41; Reproduced: pp. 123-5
11
citation
Cheney, Liana de Girolami. <em>Edward Burne-Jones on Nature: Physical and Metaphysical Realms. </em>Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned: P. 213; Reproduced: Pl. LIX
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Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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2026-05-29 08:11:28.442000
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157333
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DR - British
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graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
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