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Sir Edward Burne-Jones
British (Birmingham, England 1833 - 1898 London, England)
The Days of Creation: The First Day, 1870-1876

Drawing
Watercolor, gouache, shell gold, and platinum paint on linen-covered panel prepared with zinc white ground
102.2 x 35.5 cm (40 1/4 x 14 in.)
Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.454
Department of Drawings

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Marks: inscription: back of frame, black ink (or paint): This picture is not complete by / itself, but is No 1 of a series of / six water color [sic] pictures representing / the Days of Creation, which are / placed in a frame designed by / the Painter, from which he / desires they may not be removed. / E BURNE-JONES / LONDON. 1876 / designed 1870 / painted 1875-6

label: back of frame (central stretcher bar of panel), printed and inscribed: Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Bart. / NEW GALLERY / WINTER EXHIBITION, 1898-9 / Title The Days of Creation / Lent by Alexander Henderson Esq. / 52 Princes Gate / Reg. No. 122-1

inscription: back of panel, below area formerly covered by label, graphite: No VI

inscription: back of frame, lower center, graphite: 1
Provenance: Purchased from the artist by William Graham, London, 1877 (£2,000); his sale, Christie's, London, April 2-4, 1886, no. 161 (£1,732 10s.); purchased at that sale by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; purchased from them by Alexander Henderson, later first Lord Faringdon, 1886; his sale, Sotheby's, London, June 13, 1934, no. 99 (£860); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Bibliography: Henry James, The Painter's Eye, Rupert Hart-Davis (London, (1877) 1956), pp. 145-46

Oscar Wilde, "The Grosvenor Gallery", Dublin University Magazine (July 1877), pp. 15-16

Frederic George Stephens, "Edward Burne-Jones, A.R.A., II", Portfolio (1885), 16, pp. 229-30

"The Graham Collection", The Times [London] (April 5, 1886), p. 12

Malcolm Bell, Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London, England, 1892), pp. 49-51, repr.

Malcolm Bell, Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, Bell (London and New York, 1894), pp. 49-51, 102

Julia Cartwright, "The Life and Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones" (London, England, 1894), pg. 19

"Art. II. Catalogue of the New Gallery. Exhibition of the Works of Edward Burne-Jones.", The Edinburgh Review (January 1899), CLXXXIX, p. 29

Sir Wyck Bayliss, Five Great Painters of the Victorian Era (London, England, 1902), pp. 79-81, frontispiece

Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1946), no. 25

Martin Birnbaum, The Last Romantic (New York, NY, 1960), pp. 204-5

John Christian, Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, exh. cat., Arts Council of Great Britain (London, England, 1975), under no. 259

A. Charles Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1975), vol. 1, p. 147

Christopher Wood, Olympian Dreamers: Victorian Classical Painters 1860-1914, Constable (London, England, 1983), pp. 181, 184

Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA/New York, 1985), no. 295, repr.

Maria Teresa Benedetti, ed., Burne-Jones: dal preraffaellismo al simbolismo, exh. cat., Mazzotta (Milan, Italy, 1986), p. 89, under cat. no. 57

Martin Harrison and Bill Waters, Burne-Jones, Barrie & Jenkins (London, 1989), pp. 110-13

A.S. Byatt, Angels and Insects, Chatto & Windus (London, England, 1992), repr. p. 253

Burne-Jones 1833-1898: Dessins du Fitzwilliam Museum de Cambridge, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (Nantes, 1992), pp. 27, 110

Marjorie B. Cohn, "Turner-Ruskin-Norton-Winthrop", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1993), vol. II, p. 48

Christopher Newall, The Grosvenor Gallery Exhibitions: Change and Continuity in the Victorian Art World, Cambridge University Press (U.K.) (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 16, 57

Susan P. Casteras, ed., The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1996), pp. 81, 83

Christopher Wood, Burne-Jones: The Life and Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (London, England, 1998), repr. p. 82 (color)

Debra N. Mancoff, Burne-Jones, Pomegranate (San Francisco, CA, 1998), pp. 71-73; color repr. pl. 25

Stephen Wildman and John Christian, Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1998), reproduced in b/w p. 30, fig. 27, and p. 143, fig. 79.

Laurence des Cars, Stephen Wildman and John Christian, "Edward Burne-Jones and France", Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1998), pp. 29-30, 143

Wendy Graham, "Henry James and British Aestheticism", The Henry James Review (1999), 20, no. 3, p. 269

Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts, "Burne-Jones's Picture Frames", The Burlington Magazine (June 2000), vol. CXLII, no. 1167, pp. 362-370, p. 365

Oliver Garnett, "The Letters and Collection of William Graham: Pre-Raphaelite Patron and Pre-Raphaelite Collector", The Sixty-Second Volume of the Walpole Society, The Walpole Society (Leeds, 2000), pp. 145-343, b9 (p. 288), fig. 121, Letters B17, B18, B20, pp. 153, 167,183, 340

Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan, 2002), p. 38, fig. 3, repr. p. 122

Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), no. 7, repr.

Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 161, repr.

Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), cat. no. 161, repr. (color), pp. 30, 42

Robert Dupin, "La Collection Winthrop", Universalia, Encyclopaedia Universalis (Paris, France, 2004), pp. 343-344, p. 344

David Peters Corbett, Edward Burne-Jones, Tate (London, 2004), pp. 6, 8, fig. 2
Exhibition History: Unidentified Exhibition, Grosvenor Gallery, 1877, Grosvenor Gallery, London, 05/01/1877 - 05/31/1877, no. 60

Unidentified Exhibition, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 1885, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, 01/01/1885 - 12/31/1885

Exhibition of the Works of Edward Burne-Jones, New Gallery, London, 01/01/1892 - 12/31/1893, no. 23

Winter Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, New Gallery, London, , no. 29

Exhibition of the Works of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, New Gallery, London, 12/31/1898 - 04/08/1899, no. 39

Paintings and Drawings of the Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/1946 - 06/01/1946, no. 25

Wash and Gouache, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977, no. 9

A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004, no. 161

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