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Edward Burne-Jones Collection
Throughout this page you will have the opportunity to
consider antique images from the incomparable Pre-Raphaelite
artist, Edward Burne-Jones.
We have developed a range of
Giftware that includes images
reproduced from the 1st Edition plates in our collection
to ensure the most accurate form, line and colour possible. We have utilised a high definition capture and reproduction
technique for the
images - in contrast to the low definition representation necessary for this
website. The illustrations
are available as cards, infants' clothing, T-shirts
and unmatted, matted or framed prints (8x6", 10x8", 12x10", 15x10" and
30 x 20" images sizes).
Pricing starts at US$4 for single Gift Cards (US$18 for select packs of 6) and 10 x 8" prints
(double-matted and framed) begin at US$60. Further details on those
reproduction images are available at the
Giftware
section of this
site.
Should you wish to discuss an order, please contact us at
ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com referencing your request with
the Stock
Code of the plate, or plates in question and a brief description (and rest assured, we do accept payment through
PayPal or Direct Bank
Deposit).
In the meantime, enjoy browsing our selection of
genuine vintage and antique plates.
The Art of Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was an
artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
While attending Exeter College in Oxford, he became
a friend of William Morris - with whom he later worked on a number of
magnificent works. He studied under Rossetti before
traveling to Italy and
drawing further influences from a range of artists,
including Ruskin, with whom
he traveled.
Burne-Jones was largely responsible for bringing
the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world and in doing
so,
he executed some of the most exquisite and beautiful artworks of his time.
It is not without reason that Aymer Vallance referred
to Burne-Jones as "the greatest painter the world has
known since the fifteenth century".
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Christ's Triumphal Entry
Into Jerusalem |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
Cartoon in pastel for Glass Painting prepared in 1882.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$1500
Code: EBG CTEJ 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Passing of Venus |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
design for Arras Tapestry.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 25.3 x 10.8cm
Vintage Image Price: US$1500
Code: EBG PV 1
15 x 10" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Heart of the Lotus |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
design for an embroidery prepared in 1880.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 17.8 x 20.4cm
Vintage Image Price: US$1500
Code: EBG HL 1
16 x 20" Reproduction:
US$100
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Clavichord and Case
decorated with painted ornament |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
commission for the ornamental decoration of a Clavichord and linked Case.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 17.7 x 15.4cm
Vintage Image Price: US$1000
Code: EBG CCDPO 1
16 x 20" Reproduction:
US$100
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Flora |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
sketch design completed in 1886 for a Tapestry executed by
Morris & Co.
The Figure is by Burne-Jones,
while the Ornamentation
is by William Morris.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 25.3 x 16.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$2500
Code: EBG F 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Vision of the Holy
Grail |
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
coloured drawing completed in 1891 for a Tapestry executed by
Morris & Co.
The Figures are by Burne-Jones
and the other ornamental details by H Dearle.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$2500
Code: EBG VHG 1
15 x 10" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Good Shepherd |
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This antique Photogravure shows
the first Cartoon made by Burne-Jones for stained glass - a commission that he
received after Gabriel Rossetti first declined the work, suggesting instead that
Burne-Jones should be offered the opportunity.
After viewing Burne-Jones' work,
Rossetti wrote,
"[Burne-]Jones has just been
designing some stained glass which has driven Ruskin wild with joy: the subject
is the Good Shepherd. Christ is here represented as a real Shepherd, in such
dress as is fit for walking the fields and hills. He carried lost sheep on his
shoulder, and it is chewing some vine leaves which are wound round his hat - a
lovely idea, is it not? A loaf and bottle of wine, the Sacred Elements, hand at
His girdle; and behind Him is a wonderful piece of Gothic landscape".
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 6.5 x 17.8cm
Vintage Image Price: US$200
Code: EBG GS 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Adam and Eve after the
Fall |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon of one of three stained glass designs executed by Burne-Jones for the
dining-hall of Bradfield College in 1857.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$200
Code: EBG AEAF 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Procession of Solomon and
the Queen of Sheba |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon of another of the three stained glass designs executed by Burne-Jones
for the dining-hall of Bradfield College in 1857.
As with the preceding example,
the symbolism of the Pre-Raphaelite school is overt - as is the cast of
countenance they affected: the set, stony stare of the eyes, the pursed-up,
prim, Puritanical mouth, and the lank hair, plastered flat over the forehead.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$200
Code: EBG PSQS 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Song of Songs |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon for glass painting prepared for a series of lights for Darley Dale
Church in about 1862.
In this image, Burne-Jones
depicts the Shulamite in the act of reclining, her head close to the door to
enable her to catch the melody of her lover's endearments. "It is the voice of
my beloved that knocketh, saying, 'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled.'" There is the "hole of the door," by which he put in his hands, that
are likened, a few verses further on, to "gold rings set with beryl"; and there
too are the "handles of the lock," which was opened in vain when too late,
because the beloved had withdrawn himself.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG SS 1
10 x 8" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Martyrdom of St
Stephen |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon for glass painting prepared for a series of lights for Lyndhurst
Church in 1863.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG MSS 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Battle of Beth-horon |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a further Cartoon for glass painting prepared for a series of lights for
Lyndhurst Church in 1863.
The foreground is occupied by
armed combatants battling desperately within the vineyard enclosure; and beyond
it, in the middle distance, kneels Joshua on Mount Gibeon, above the summit of
which, again further off, are seen more warriors fighting in the tented field.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG BB 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Elijah and the Prophets
of Baal |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a further Cartoon for glass painting prepared for a series of lights for
Lyndhurst Church in 1863.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG EPB 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Angels Playing
Hand-organs |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon for glass painting prepared in the mid-1860s.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG APH 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Angels Playing Harps |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a further Cartoon for glass painting prepared in the mid-1860s.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG APH(2) 1
10 x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Evangelic Symbols of
St Matthew and St Mark |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a portion of a Cartoon for glass painting prepared in 1872 and designed for
Castle Howard.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG ESSMSM 1
15 x 10" Reproduction:
US$35
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The Evangelic Symbols of
St Luke and St John |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a further portion of a Cartoon for glass painting prepared in 1872 and designed
for Castle Howard.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG ESSLSJ 1
15 x 10" Reproduction:
US$35
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Angels Holding Scroll |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon designed in 1892 for the lower part of a mullioned window at Hillhead,
Glasgow.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG AHS 1
15 x 10" Reproduction:
US$35
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Luna |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a design for
tile-painting produced in or
about 1868.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG L 1
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x 10" Reproduction:
US$25
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King René Painting |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a decorative panel of a cabinet.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG KRP 1
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US$35
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The Birth of Pegasus and
Chrysaor |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a design for gesso decoration in an oak panelled room produced in or about 1875
for the drawing-room of the Rt Hon Arthur Balfour in Carlton Gardens.
This particular decoration was
never carried out.
The design shows Chrysaor and
the magical winged horse Pegasus, both springing into being from the trunk of
Medusa, whose head has just be stricken off by Perseus. The treatment of the
horse is modeled after the animals in the frieze of the Parthenon.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG BPC 1
8 x 10" Reproduction:
US$25
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The Son of God emptying
Himself of His Glory |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a sketch that depicts the Heavenly throne amid the seven golden candlesticks of
the Apocalypse vacated, whilst upon the bare and rugged earth below stands the
Son of God, stripped, and exhibiting the tokens of His Passion.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
Code: EBG SGEHHG 1
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x 15" Reproduction:
US$35
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Christ Enthroned in
Majesty |
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This antique Photogravure shows
detail from a Mosaic design for the apse of St Paul's American Protestant Church
in Rome - a commission Burne-Jones received in 1883.
Christ is depicted in Majesty,
surrounded by Cherubim and other orders of the Celestial hierarchy. Beneath the
throne on which He sits the four rivers of Paradise issue from within the arc of
the rainbow at his feet.
Provenance: An American Collector
Image Size: 12 x 26.6cm
Vintage Image Price: US$400
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