King David the Poet
Medium
Stained glass
Dimensions
Overall: 32 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (82.6 × 49.5 cm)
Classification
Glass-Stained
Culture
British, London
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund, Gifts of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Weber, Helen O. Brice, and Mrs. Donald Gill, by exchange, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 1998
Accession Number
1998.231
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Edward Burne-Jones|William Morris|Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. · 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...