Illustrated letter with self-portrait of Burne-Jones smoking a giant cigar

Details

• Title

  Illustrated letter with self-portrait of Burne-Jones smoking a giant cigar

• Artist/maker

  Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)

• Associated place

  Europe (place of creation)

• Date

  1893 - 1898

• Material and technique

  pen and ink on blue writing paper

• Object type

  communications equipment › art/writing equipment › letter

• Dimensions

  27.5 x 37.5 x 4 cm volume (height x width x depth)
  17.5 x 22.5 cm sheet (height x width)

• No. of items

  1

• 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.

  WA2015.69.23

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