A Seated Fat Lady

ca. 1866

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and ink on lined blue paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 3/4 in. (11.8 × 9.5 cm)
Collection no.: 2021.16.4
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. A Seated Fat Lady. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

A Seated Fat Lady — Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. ca. 1866.

Medium: Pen and ink on lined blue paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 3 3/4 in. (11.8 × 9.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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