拍品专文
Primarily known as her husband's biographer, Georgiana Burne-Jones was an artist in her own right. Taking lessons from Ford Madox Brown she painted tiles for Morris & Co. and made wood cuts, for which this highly-detailed drawing may have been intended. This work follows other contemporary illustrations of the same subject, notably George Frederic Watts' Found Drowned (1848-50, Watts Gallery), Augustus Leopold Egg's Past and Present, No. 3 (1858, Tate), Simeon Solomon's I am Starving (1857, National Gallery of Art, Washington), and Abraham Solomon's Drowned! Drowned! (1860, location unknown).
We are grateful to Colin Cruise for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.
We are grateful to Colin Cruise for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.