Sir EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, A.R.A.
(1833-1898)
 

Cartoon for stained glass window: Lot and His Daughters

1874

watercolour, bodycolour and chalk on paper

76.2 x 59.4 cm

inscribed: SODOMA

P.431

Lot and his family flee the burning city of Sodom; his wife turns back to look at the stricken city and is transformed into a pillar of salt.

The cartoon was drawn in the summer of 1874 for a large west window that William Morris was currently installing in the Cathedral at Calcutta, although the design was not included in the finished work. Executed by Morris & Co., the window was a memorial to the recently assassinated Viceroy, Lord Mayo (1822-72).

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PROVENANCE: John Nicholson Gallery, USA; J.S. Maas & Co. Ltd, from whom purchased by Gallery, October 1962.

EXHIBITIONS: Jubilee Exhibition, Bradford, Bradford Art Gallery, 1930, no.467; The Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries, London, J.S. Maas & Co. Ltd, 1962, no.23; The English Tradition, Bedford, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, 1972, no.9.

REFERENCES: Burne-Jones’s autograph account book, entry for May-June 1874 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge); M. Harrison & B. Waters, Burne-Jones, 1973, p.112, fig.162, as Destruction of Sodom; A.C. Sewter, The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle, 1974-5, vol.2, p.219.