Ink, watercolour, gouache and gum on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Art Fund
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-edward-coley-burne-jones-bt-68" aria-label="More by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt</a>
Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor
Presented by J.R. Holliday through the Art Fund 1923
actions: expressive
adults
affair
architecture
attacking
crime and punishment
domestic
domestic
Eleanor, Queen of Henry II
features
furnishings
interior - non-specific
interiors
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
maze
mirror
murder
named individuals
objects
people
queen
recoiling
royalty and social rank
sex and relationships
society
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, ‘Rosamund’
thread
woman
work and occupations
<p>Burne-Jones treated the story of Fair Rosamund several times in the early 1860s. According to legend, King Henry II created a hidden chamber for his mistress, Rosamund, at the centre of an elaborate maze. There she was discovered and murdered by her rival, Queen Eleanor. While he was a student at Oxford, Burne-Jones visited Godstowe, the presumed site of Rosamund's grave. But a fresh impetus for his group of pictures came from Swinburne's verse drama of 1860, which enacts the confrontation of Rosamund and the Queen. The circular mirror is derived from one made by Burne-Jones's father, but ultimately from that in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini marriage portrait in the National Gallery.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique ink watercolour gouache gum
12 July 2003 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
12 July 2003 – 28 September 2003
2003-09-28
2003-07-12
Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)
25 October 2003 – 15 February 2004
2004-02-15
2003-10-25
Dunedin Public Art Gallery (Dunedin, New Zealand)
http://www.dunedin.art.museum
14 May 2004 – 15 August 2004
2004-08-15
2004-05-14
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2003-07-12
The Pre-Raphaelite Dream: Paintings and Drawings from the Tate Collection
Tate partnerships & programmes
24 October 2009 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
24 October 2009 – 7 February 2010
2010-02-07
2009-10-24
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
1 March 2010 – 25 July 2010
2010-07-25
2010-03-01
Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
2009-10-24
Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise
Loan-out
1 July 2012 – 30 October 2012
2012-10-30
1 July 2012 – 30 October 2012
2012-10-30
2012-07-01
Society of Antiquaries -Kelmscott Manor (Kelmscott, UK)
2012-07-01
Reciprocal loan for Pre-Raphaelite Avant-Garde
Loan-out
2 October 2017 – 2 April 2018
2018-04-02
2 October 2017 – 2 April 2018
2018-04-02
2017-10-02
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
2017-10-02
Jan van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites
Loan-out
14 September 2019 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
14 September 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-09-14
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde (Stockholm, Sweden)
http://www.waldermarsudde.com
21 February 2020 – 31 May 2020
2020-05-31
2020-02-21
KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes (Bergen, Norway)
2019-09-14
Edward Burne-Jones: The Pre-Raphaelites and the North
Loan-out
Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor
support: 260 × 273 mm
Presented by J.R. Holliday through the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 1923
<p>Burne-Jones treated the story of Fair Rosamund several times in the early 1860s. According to legend, King Henry II created a hidden chamber for his mistress, Rosamund, at the centre of an elaborate maze. There she was discovered and murdered by her rival, Queen Eleanor. While he was a student at Oxford, Burne-Jones visited Godstowe, the presumed site of Rosamund's grave. But a fresh impetus for his group of pictures came from Swinburne's verse drama of 1860, which enacts the confrontation of Rosamund and the Queen. The circular mirror is derived from one made by Burne-Jones's father, but ultimately from that in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini marriage <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/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> in the National Gallery.</p>
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actions: expressive adults affair architecture attacking crime and punishment domestic domestic Eleanor, Queen of Henry II features furnishings interior - non-specific interiors literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) maze mirror murder named individuals objects people queen recoiling royalty and social rank sex and relationships society Swinburne, Algernon Charles, ‘Rosamund’ thread woman work and occupations