The Garden Court
Cleveland Museum of Art

The Garden Court

Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898) · 1870–75

graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Art historian Andrea Wolk Rager has interpreted this drawing as related to Edward Burne-Jones's socialist beliefs, identifying the weaver at right in the work as a personification of artistic labor, dormant in industrialized Victorian society.

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