Alice, la Belle Pèlerine
1858–59
Medium
Graphite and black ink, heightened with white, on vellum; the head and shoulders on a subsidiary piece of vellum
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 in. × 5 11/16 in. (25.4 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016
Accession Number
2016.619
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1833–1898
Edward Coley Burne-Jones was born on 28 August 1833 in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker, and lost his mother within a week of his birth. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and the Birmingham School of Art before proceeding to Exeter College, Oxford, in 1852, intending to study theology. At Oxford he formed a lifelong friendship with William Morris, and the two young men became intoxicat...