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Dido and Cleopatra

Panel
1861-1864 (made)
Artist/Maker
Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (makers)
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (Sir) (designer)
Place of origin
England (made)

Panel. The Queens Dido and Cleopatra; from Chaucer's "Legends of Good Women".


Object details

Categories
Access_to_Images 2003
Stained Glass
British Galleries
SCRAN
Object type
Panel
Titles
  • Dido and Cleopatra (generic title)
  • Chaucer's Goode Wimmen (series title)
Materials and techniques
Stained and painted glass
Stained Glass
Lead
Brief description
Painted and leaded glass panel depicting Queens Dido and Cleopatra from Chaucer's 'Legende of Good Women'. Designed by Edward Burne-Jones. Made by Morris & Co. English, 1861-4.
Physical description
Panel. The Queens Dido and Cleopatra; from Chaucer's "Legends of Good Women".
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.5in
  • Width: 17in
  • Framed height: 468mm (Note: Dims by SE)
  • Framed width: 507mm (Note: Dims by SE)
  • Framed depth: 32mm (Note: Dims by SE)
Subjects depicted
Crown
Woman
Ship
Flower
Torch
Dido
Cleopatra
Bibliographic references
  • Parry, Linda, ed. William Morris. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, 1996. 384 p., ill. ISBN 0856674419
  • Smith, Alison. Edward Burne-Jones. London, 2018 fig. 14, p. 60 and 61
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
775-1864

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Record createdJuly 21, 1998
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8454/dido-and-cleopatra-panel-burne-jones-edward/
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