Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English artist Size:L: 100 x 80cm Ornithological study of the male

Ornithological study of the male and female Crossbill Loxia curvirostra

' The inscription for plate's authorship has been trimmed off in binding

showing the 'Bow Street Runners'

with orifices exposed

The drawing shows the wreck of H

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English artist Size:L: 100 x 80cm Ornithological study of the maleSir Edward Burne Jones, English artist, 1890. Burne Jones (1833 1898) painting 'The Star of Bethlehem' in his studio. One of the second wave of Pre Raphaelite painters and initially much influenced by William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Burne Jones gave up his plans to enter the priesthood to become a painter in the late 1850s.