Sign in or join

See it hung

Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries

Look first

  • What catches your attention?
  • Where does your eye go next?
  • What would you ask about this work?
Show me

Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries, 1893. black and blue crayons with graphite on light to medium-weight Japanese paper.

Skip to the reading

black and blue crayons with graphite on light to medium-weight Japanese paper · Sheet: 34.3 x 22.4 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art

Read more at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Look again

What do you notice now?

Try a quick sketch

Take a minute to sketch on any paper. No upload needed.

What did you draw first? What did you leave out?

Details and source

Museum title
Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries
Artist
Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833–1898)
Date
1893
Medium
black and blue crayons with graphite on light to medium-weight Japanese paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 34.3 x 22.4 cm (13 1/2 x 8 13/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.5 x 23.4 cm (14 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit line
Gift in memory of Helen Borowitz
Image license
CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record
Cleveland Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1833–1898

View in the Atlas

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.

Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries · Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1893
Fit
Shortcuts ?
Enter
Look closer
+ −
Zoom in / out
0
Fit the whole artwork
← → ↑ ↓
Pan the image while zoomed
← →
Previous / next artwork, outside this view
Esc
Close this view; press again to return to Sir Edward Burne-Jones’s artworks

Tab moves between controls. Browser zoom shortcuts stay available.

Study for the Failure of Gawain from the Holy Grail Tapestries, Sir Edward Burne-Jones

+ − Zoom · Arrow keys pan · Esc Close