Album of illustrated letters from Burne-Jones to Mrs Helen Mary ('May') Gaskell

Album of illustrated letters from Burne-Jones to Mrs Helen Mary ('May') Gaskell (WA2015.68, record shot)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image, internal record shot)

Details

Title

Album of illustrated letters from Burne-Jones to Mrs Helen Mary ('May') Gaskell
Artist/maker

Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)
Associated place

Europe (place of creation)
Date

1893 - 1898
Material and technique

pen and ink and graphite on blue, white and cream writing paper
Object type

drawing;

album;

letter
Dimensions

41.5 x 31 x 4 cm volume (height x width x depth)
44.5 x 34 x 6.5 cm box (height x width x depth)
No. of items

n/a
Credit line

Purchased (Blakiston, Madan, Bouch, Virtue-Tebbs Funds) with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund, the ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, the Friends of the Ashmolean, and numerous private donations, 2015.
Museum location

Western Art Print Room
Museum department

Western Art
Accession no.

WA2015.68

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Further reading

Harrison Colin, Palmer Caroline, Wodehouse Katherine, Dickinson Harry, Great British Drawings (Oxford, 2015), no. 121

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress dancing and holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress stooping to pick up her fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress walking towards a bathroom

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman coming out of a bathroom wrapped in a large towel

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress entering a bathroom

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress dancing while holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress ascending a staircase

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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Caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a fan

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An owl on a branch

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman accompanied by a man, both in evening dress

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A phlumbudge

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Illustrated menu

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Illustrated menu

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Pig wearing a garland

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A woman reclining, possibly Cleopatra

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Seven pigs lying in the middle of a street

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Two pigs lying in a field

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Pig in profile wearing a garland

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Illustrated letter with two pigs

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A pig and a piglet in a field with a church in the distance

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman manoeuvring the train of her dress

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Two pigs

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Pig lying on its side

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman on the beach at Rottingdean looking out to sea

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman on the beach at Rottingdean with her hat blowing away in the wind

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman on the beach at Rottingdean with her arms above her head

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Letter accompanying caricatures of a woman in the bath

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Illustrated letter with bathroom door

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in the bath

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman drying herself with a towel

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Illustrated letter with the figure of a mower

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Illustrated letter with the figure of a gentleman in a top hat with a cane

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Illustrated letter with four men in armchairs behind reading newspapers (The Athenaeum)

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Dancing woman

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Envelope with a bird

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress holding a glove

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Caricature of May Gaskell and Burne-Jones sitting together, a table laid with boiled eggs, a kettle and a loaf of bread between them

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Illustrated letter with a chick

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait lying in bed

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait sitting in an armchair

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Illustrated letter with a flu microbe

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait lying on a sofa

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait falling backwards

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait skipping

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait in a night gown

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Illustrated letter with self-portrait in eighteenth-century costume with a sword

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress making a low bow

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Illustrated letter with head of a woman in profile with an earring

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Illustrated letter with Philip Burne-Jones slipping over the edge of a cliff

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A malicious sprite

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Illustrated letter with four drawings of the story of a fat man swimming naked in the sea

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Illustrated letter with a fat man walking on the beach

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Illustrated letter with a fat man sitting in an armchair reading a newspaper

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Illustrated letter with a fat man asleep in an armchair

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Illustrated letter with a fat man asleep in bed

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Illustrated letter with a fat man admiring himself in a mirror

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Illustrated letter with a fat man out shooting in the rain

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Man wearing Middle Eastern costume and a fez

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Study for fancy dress costume for Amy Gaskell

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress pointing at a painting with her fan

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Portrait of a woman in profile

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Caricature of a woman in the shape of an egg

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Young boy in profile (self-portrait)

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Illustrated letter with a hairy sprite

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Illustrated letter with head and shoulders of the same woman shown in youth and middle age

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Dog

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Fragment from an illustrated letter with a dancing sprite

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Illustrated letter with an evil spirit

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Illustrated letter with a happy sprite

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Fragment of an illustrated letter with a fat man asleep in an armchair

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress asleep on a sofa

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Fragment of an illustrated letter with briars and stones on a road

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Illustrated letter with a chick and a piece of eggshell

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Helen Mary ('May') Gaskell in the bath

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A Snufflebuster

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A Wallypug

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Illustrated letter with a woman reclining on a sofa

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Illustrated letter with hen

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Male actor playing Theon of Alexandria in 'Hypatia' by G. Stuart Ogilvie

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Fragment of an illustrated letter with two dogs

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Fragment of an illustrated letter with a man in an armchair reading a newspaper

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Illustrated letter with caricature of a woman in evening dress asleep in a hammock

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Illustrated letter with a bird flying up into the clouds and the rays of the sun emerging from behind a mountain ridge

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Spider-like creature

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Illustrated letter with a dog pouncing and lying on its back

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Illustrated letter with an egg with a smiling face

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Fragment of an illustrated letter with a Pierrot

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Illustrated letter with Aestas (the Personification of Summer)

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