The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness: an illustration to Chaucer's 'Romance of the Rose'
$500
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt, A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)
The Pilgrim at the Garden of Idleness: an illustration to Chaucer's 'Romance of the Rose'
inscribed with the names of the Vices: 'HATE', 'FELONY', 'VILANY', 'COVETISE', 'AVARICE', 'ENVY', 'SORROW', 'ELDE', 'HYPOCRISY', 'POVERTY' (on the pedestals of the statues)
pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic, on two sheets of paper
12? x 36? in. (30.8 x 91.7 cm.); and 12? x 47¾ in. (32 x 121.3 cm.)
