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DAY & FABER master drawings

    Edward Burne-Jones (Birmingham 1833 - London 1898)

    The Great Whirlpool

    Description:

    inscribed upper centre: “THE GREAT WHIRLPOOL”
    pencil on paper, with a partial Whatman watermark
    257 x 194 mm

    Provenance:

    The artist, by whom given to his granddaughter,
    Angela Margaret Thirkell (née Mackail) (1890-1966), and by descent to her son,
    Graham Campbell McInnes (1912-1970), by whom given to his daughter, and by descent
     

    Note:

    This is one of a group of drawings Burne-Jones made for his granddaughter, Angela Mackail in the 1890s.

    The Great Whirlpool