Edward Burne-Jones - A Bathing Beauty: Emma Frank

c. 1873
Pencil on white paper

"Burne-Jones was both fascinated and offended by what he called 'Fat Ladies' or 'Prominent Women' and a complete a whole series of drawings on this theme. The sexual original of this distaste is suggested by a recurrent dream that Burne-Jones had in which he recalls, '. . . I marry very undesirable, hairy fat women and wake disgusted'"

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