Drawings

Psyche Rushing out of the Palace

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1866
Accession number: 2000.5.1550.12
Makers: Edward Burne-Jones(Opens in new tab) (British, 1833–1898); Morris and Company(Opens in new tab) (British, 1861–1940)
Dimensions: 5 1/8 x 4 in. (13 x 10.2 cm.) book: 9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (23.5 x 19.1 cm.)
Medium: ink and graphite on paper
Description: Design for book illustration. Psyche in long robes, shown in profile to right, clasping head running out of palace interior (decorated floral panels near her figure) to outdoors - lake and mountains, Cupid dlying in distance.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: European Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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