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The image shows a leaf-like sculpture with curling edges and intricate texturing, placed in a square frame. The color palette includes earthy tones such as brown, beige, white highlights, and dark shadows. The object is centrally positioned, with its curling forms extending towards the top right, creating depth and dimension.
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The image shows a leaf-like sculpture with curling edges and intricate texturing, placed in a square frame. The color palette includes earthy tones such as brown, beige, white highlights, and dark shadows. The object is centrally positioned, with its curling forms extending towards the top right, creating depth and dimension.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

A Fragment from an Antique Frieze

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Medium
black chalk heightened with white gouache on brown wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 27.4 x 24.1 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
1995.52.14
Credit line
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • British
  • detail and ornament
  • architecture
  • Acanthus leaf
  • Frieze
Provenance

(J.S. Maas & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, December 1972-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Inscription

lower left in black chalk: EBJ.; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 7561 / MOUNT

NGA object ID 75879. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.