The Legend of the Briar Rose - The Prince Enters the Briar Wood
Medium
Photogravure; proof
Dimensions
Image: 16 5/16 × 32 9/16 in. (41.5 × 82.7 cm) Sheet: 25 1/2 × 37 3/16 in. (64.7 × 94.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.592.25
Tags
About the Artist
Sir Edward Burne-Jones|Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd. · 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...