William Morris Archive

Aeneas slaying Mezentius


Bibliographic Citation

Edward Burne-Jones, “Aeneas slaying Mezentius,” William Morris Archive, accessed November 14, 2024, http://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/2673.

Title

Aeneas slaying Mezentius

Creator

Edward Burne-Jones

Date

1873

Publisher

The Fitzwilliam Museum, 1183-9

Type

illustration

Is Version Of

The Aeneids of Virgil

Description

The Fitzwilliam Museum owns twenty-nine drawings, all highly-finished as illustrations for a proposed Aeneid of Virgil, as planned by William Morris. Between 1870 and 1875 Morris completed five hand-written volumes and began several more; of these only one was the Aeneid.
The Huntington Library owns the manuscript by William Morris #6439. See Anna Cox Brinton, A Pre-Raphaelite Aeneid, W. Ritchie, 1934, pp. 17-18; Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, vol. 2, ch. xvii, p. 56.
Provenance: EB-J; Laurence W. Hodson; Hodson sale, Christie's, June 15, 1906, lot 37, bought J. R. Holliday, by whom presented to the Museum, 1927