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Two Seated Figures Backgammon Players
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
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<p>Burne-Jones's involvement with the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company meant that several of his designs were redeployed to decorate furniture. This sketch relates to a highly finished pencil drawing of 1861 called 'The Backgammon Players' (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), in which the position of the figures is reversed. Burne-Jones repeated the subject as an oil painting on leather for the doors of a cabinet made by the Morris company (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique graphite
20 April 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
1 March 2015 – 7 May 2017
2017-05-07
2015-03-01
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2015-04-20
Pre Raphaelite Works on Paper
Collection based display
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
24 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
2019-02-24
2018-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-10-24
Edward Burne-Jones
Exhibition
14 December 2018 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
19 June 2019 – 6 October 2019
2019-10-06
2019-06-19
Palazzo Reale (Milan, Italy)
13 May 2021 – 19 September 2021
2021-09-19
2021-05-13
Hungarian National Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
2018-12-14
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Tate partnerships & programmes
Sketch of Two Seated Figures for ?‘The Backgammon Players’
support: 210 × 225 mm
Bequeathed by J.R. Holliday 1927
<p>Burne-Jones's involvement with the firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company meant that several of his designs were redeployed to decorate furniture. This sketch relates to a highly finished <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/g/graphite" title="Glossary definition for 'Graphite'"><span>pencil</span></a> <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> of 1861 called 'The Backgammon Players' (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), in which the position of the figures is reversed. Burne-Jones repeated the subject as an oil <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> on leather for the doors of a cabinet made by the Morris company (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).</p>
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