In Tate Britain
Prints and Drawings Room
View by appointment- Artist
- Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898
- Medium
- Wood engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 178 x 133 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by Lord Battersea 1924
- Reference
- N04015
Display caption
This illustration from Ezekiel is the only design Burne-Jones produced for the Bible Gallery. A brooding Ezekiel sits in the foreground attending to a fire in which he will burn his hair and beard. This act symbolises the imminent destruction of Jerusalem. By contrast, the women appear idle in the background, unaware of the impending disaster.
Burne-Jones designed very few wood-engravings. He is better known for his later association with the Kelmscott Press, and especially for his many illustrations for the Kelmscott Chaucer.
Gallery label, July 2008
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