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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS (British, 1833-1898) Study for Lancelot for The Departure of the Knights tapestry image 1
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS
(British, 1833-1898)
Study for Lancelot for The Departure of the Knights tapestry

26 March 2025, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS (British, 1833-1898)

Study for Lancelot for The Departure of the Knights tapestry
signed, inscribed and dated 'EB-J/1893/Study for/LANCELOT for the/Departure of the Knights/Tapestry of the MORTE/D'ARTHUR (in pencil, lower right)
black chalk
31 x 21.5cm (12 3/16 x 8 7/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Canada.

Literature
T. Martin Wood, The Drawings of Sir Edward Burne-Jones (Drawings of the Great Masters), London, 1907, pl. XXI.

The present work is listed in the Burne-Jones catalogue, www.eb-j.org.

A study for the figure of Lancelot, from The Arming and Departure of the Knights, one of a set of six tapestries illustrating the Quest for the Holy Grail as described in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur. Made by Morris & Co., the tapestries were commissioned by William Knox D'Arcy for his dining room in Stanmore Hall. Morris & Co. worked on the series from 1891-1894, with Burne-Jones designing the composition and figures. The company produced several subsequent sets of the tapestries between 1895 and 1899.

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