Lucretia, William Morris; Edward Burne-Jones

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William Morris; Edward Burne-Jones, Lucretia
William Morris; Edward Burne-Jones, Lucretia
William Morris , Edward Burne-Jones
Lucretia
before 1896
William Morris, artist
1834–1896
Edward Burne-Jones, artist
1833–1898
Lucretia, before 1896
Where object was made: England, United Kingdom
Material/technique: woodcut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 124 x 165 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 188 x 211 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 4 7/8 x 6 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 7 3/8 x 8 5/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 1978.0108
Not on display
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Archive Label 2003: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in later nineteenth-century England found inspiration in early Italian painting and the graphic art of Dürer. We know, for example, that the specialists who worked on the woodcut illustrations for William Morris’s Kelmscott Chaucer turned to Dürer’s woodcuts for guidance in the cutting of Edward Burne-Jones’ drawings “to see how he had dealt with passages.”