The Campagna - Mrs ...... in Italy

Price Realised GBP 1,250

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SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1833-1898 LONDON)

The Campagna - Mrs ...... in Italy

Price Realised GBP 1,250

Closed: 8 Dec 2020

Price Realised GBP 1,250

Closed: 8 Dec 2020

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SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1833-1898 LONDON)
The Campagna - Mrs ...... in Italy
inscribed 'MRS ..... IN ITALY' (upper centre) and 'NO.1. THE CAMPAGNA.' (lower left)
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6⁵⁄₈ x 4¹⁄₄ in. (16.8 x 10.8 cm.)

Maria Zambaco, and by descent to her great niece
Mrs Wyndham Milligan; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 29 June 1976, lot 238.

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Lot Essay

Throughout his life Burne-Jones’s fey sense of humour found an outlet in caricatures, often sketched in the company of friends or in letters to them, and they counterpoint the seriousness of his studio work. Burne-Jones’s wife Georgiana was rather high-minded, and Graham Robertson believed that ‘EB-J’s surroundings were so extremely correct and proper that I think he had to break out occasionally’ (K. Preston, ed., , 1953, p. 491). The caricatures often poke fun at bigness, in parody of Rubens. Burne-Jones was a thin man, but his friend William Morris was inclined to fat; here, Burne-Jones imagines Jane Morris a plump baby in the the Roman campagna, during a trip they all took together in 1873. Underlying the humour was gentle concern for his friends’ health.