The Entombment
Medium
Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white gouache (bodycolor) on green paper
Dimensions
12 x 18-3/4 in. (30.5 x 47.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Darwin S. Morse, 1963
Accession Number
63.200.3
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...