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Edward Burne-Jones

The Garden Court

1870–75
graphite and watercolor, heightened with white gouache

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

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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