01 Classic Work by the Old Masters, Edward Coley Burne-Jones' The Answering String - With Footnotes, #22

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS (British, 1833-1898)

The Answering String, c. 1896

Bodycolour, gold paint and coloured chalk

34.2 x 21.5cm (13 7/16 x 8 7/16in)

Private collection

A heavily draped female figure, her head covered, stands in an enclosed space beside a building of stone construction and with a single barred window. A woman stands in the foreground holding a dulcimer the strings of which she appears to pluck. The drawing's title – The Answering String – seems to imply that she has found a way to communicate with an unseen person who is held captive in a cell, by striking a note on her instrument and awaiting the reply. More on this painting

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet ARA (28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain. His early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic "voice". In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery (a new rival to the Royal Academy). These included The Beguiling of Merlin. The timing was right, and he was taken up as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement. More on Edward Coley Burne-Jones

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