FDA-A.618-2018
Parts
Object number
FDA-A.618-2018
Object type
Identification
Title
Willie Graham
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Rectangular plaque (portrait orientation), with lettering
Comments
‘In 1872 [Francis Graham’s] elder brother Rutherford… died of diphtheria… Worse was to follow with the death in September 1875 of her remaining brother, Willie. Willie was an extraordinarily good-looking, fair-haired boy with ‘a sunny nature’, who had modelled as a page boy with mandolin serenading Janey Morris in Rossetti’s Marina. Suffering from a heavy cold, he had drained a bottle of ‘cold mixture’. Unaware that it contained morphine, he died in his sleep of an overdose…
Burne-Jones was commissioned to ‘ornament’ a brass plaque for the wall by the North Door in Eton College Chapel in memory of Willie Graham.’
[Source: Gailey, Andrew, Portrait of a Muse: Francis Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream, 2020, p.29, p.387 footnote 53]
Burne-Jones was commissioned to ‘ornament’ a brass plaque for the wall by the North Door in Eton College Chapel in memory of Willie Graham.’
[Source: Gailey, Andrew, Portrait of a Muse: Francis Graham, Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelite Dream, 2020, p.29, p.387 footnote 53]
Description
Content (description)
Inscription
Production
Person
Date
1875
History and association
References
• Lack, W., Stuchfield, H. Martin and Whittemore, P., The Monumental Brasses of Buckinghamshire, London: Monumental Brass Society, 1994 (p. 88, no. C)
