Inscribed with title u.l.: King Pharaoh's Dream

Pencil with black and white chalk on light brown paper, 12 by 16 cm

Provenance: The Drawing Shop, New York; with Robert Holden in 1993

This is a proposed illustration for J.W.McKail's project Biblia Innocentium which was published by the Kelmscott Press in 1892. McKail was Burne-Jones's son-in-law and the artist had intended to produce some 200 illustrations for the work but they were never completed and the book was published without them. Some were later reproduced as woodcuts by Robert Catterson-Smith in 1902.