Ladies and Animals Sideboard
Sideboard
1860 (painted)
1860 (painted)
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During the week before his wedding in June 1860, the artist Edward Burne-Jones painted a plain sideboard that he had in his possession, and later used it in his dining room. He described the subject of his painting as 'Ladies and animals...in various relations to each other'. The three panels on the front show ladies feeding pigs, parrot and fishes.
Burne-Jones had begun painting furniture a few years earlier when he shared a studio in Red Lion Square, London, with the designer William Morris. They were influenced by medieval furniture which was plain and strongly-built, but with a surface decoration of painting.
Burne-Jones had begun painting furniture a few years earlier when he shared a studio in Red Lion Square, London, with the designer William Morris. They were influenced by medieval furniture which was plain and strongly-built, but with a surface decoration of painting.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Title | Ladies and Animals Sideboard (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pine, painted in oil paint, with gold and silver leaf |
| Brief description | Sideboard, deal, painted with ladies and animals by Edward Burne-Jones, British 1860. |
| Physical description | Sideboard, rectangular with an open base, and two drawers and three cupboards in the upper section, the front painted with large scale figures on the theme of 'ladies and animals'. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs. J.W. Mackail |
| Object history | According to Georgiana Burne-Jones, .Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, vol. 1, 1904, pp. 206-7, Burne-Jones painted this sideboard in the week before his wedding in June 1860. The red-brown finish on the top and on the shelf at the bottom is similar to that used for the stand on the St. George Cabinet. Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones moved to The Grange, North End Road, Fulham, in 1867 and the sideboard is shown there, in the dining room, with a rectangular mirror above, in T.M. Rooke's watercolour of 1898 (private collection). The sideboard was given to the Museum in 1953 by Margaret Mackail, daughter of Edward and Georgiana. In 1971 this cabinet was on display in the Green Dining Room, originally decorated by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1866. |
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| Summary | During the week before his wedding in June 1860, the artist Edward Burne-Jones painted a plain sideboard that he had in his possession, and later used it in his dining room. He described the subject of his painting as 'Ladies and animals...in various relations to each other'. The three panels on the front show ladies feeding pigs, parrot and fishes. Burne-Jones had begun painting furniture a few years earlier when he shared a studio in Red Lion Square, London, with the designer William Morris. They were influenced by medieval furniture which was plain and strongly-built, but with a surface decoration of painting. |
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| Accession number | W.10-1953 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2002 |
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