The Nativity

The Nativity

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

1887

Guache and gold paint on white paper

57 x 23 1/4 inches; 145 x 59 cm.

"The Nativity is the finished preparatory study for the stained class window in the chancel of St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, exececuted in 1888. There is a cartoon (a photographic enlargement by Frederick Hollyer worked over in watercolour) in the Victoria and Albert Museum; see A. C. Sewter, 1975" (Waters, 55).

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    • Provenance: The artist's studio sale, Christie's, 16 July 1898, lot 53 (44 guineas to Agnew); Francis 7th Earl Cowper, Panshanger, Hertfordshire and by descent to Lady Desborough, her sale Christies 1953 to William Scudamore Mitchell.

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