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The Art of Edward Burne-Jones
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was an artist associated with the
Golden Age of Illustration. He was a designer linked with the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood.
The Edward Burne-Jones Collection at Spirit of the Ages
includes art images from some of his seminal work. As a valuable reference resource, options are also provided
for purchasing a range of gifts, including reproduction prints, posters and greeting cards.
While attending Exeter College in Oxford, he became a friend of William Morris -
with whom he later contributed to 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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Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Images
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We have prepared sets of 10 Greeting Cards displaying
images of each of the colour illustrations from Edward Burne-Jones featured in the
Collection (for display on our Greeting Cards, we present each polyptych as one
image). Ordering one of those sets is as easy as selecting the "Add to
Cart"
feature below and following the prompts provided with our Shopping Cart
secured through PayPal. Multiple purchases will
be consolidated by that feature and shipping and handling costs to any destination in the world are accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every
US$200 worth of purchases.
Code: EM CS(10)
Price: US$50.00
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When presented on Greeting Cards, these
images are prepared as tipped-in
plates - in homage to the hand-crafted approach
typical
of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades
of the 20th Century.
Hand-finishing is used to replicate the
visual appearance of a tipped-in plate and the images are presented
on Ivory card
stock (in the case of colour illustrations) or White
card stock (in the case of monotone illustrations) with an accompanying
envelope. We have left the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.
Should you wish to order a Reproduction Print of one or more of these images, we have provided some options below.
Of course, should you wish to
discuss some customised options, we welcome
your contact on any matter through
ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com.
In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful images
from Edward Burne-Jones.
The colour illustrations
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Christ's Triumphal Entry
Into Jerusalem
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The Passing of Venus
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
Cartoon in
pastel for Glass Painting prepared in 1882.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ CTEJ 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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This antique Heliochrome shows a design for Arras Tapestry.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ PV 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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The Heart of the Lotus
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Clavichord and Case
decorated with painted ornament
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
design
for an embroidery prepared in 1880.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ HL 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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This antique Heliochrome shows a
commission for the ornamental
decoration of a
Clavichord and the associated Case.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ CCDPO 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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Flora
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The Vision of the Holy
Grail
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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.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ F 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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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.
Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ VHG 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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The Hill-Fairies
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Presented as a Diptych
A pair of reproductions on 10x15" sheets
Code: EBJ HF1|2 10x15
Price: US$100.00
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Paradise, with the Adoration of the Lamb
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Presented as a Pentaptych
A group of five reproductions on 10x15" sheets
Code: EBJ PAL1|2|3|4|5 10x15
Price: US$250.00
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Amor, Fama, Fortuna and Oblivio
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Presented as a Tetraptych
A group of four reproductions on 10x15" sheets
Code: EBJ AFFO1|2|3|4 10x15
Price: US$200.00
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Luna
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Code: EBJ L 10x15
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The monotone illustrations
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The Good Shepherd
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Adam and Eve after the
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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".
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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. |
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Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ GS 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ AEF 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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Procession of Solomon and
the Queen of Sheba
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The Song of Songs
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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.
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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,
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Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ PSQS 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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Reproduction on 10x15" sheet
Code: EBJ SS 10x15
Price: US$50.00
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The Martyrdom of St
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This antique Photogravure shows
a Cartoon for glass painting prepared for a series of lights for Lyndhurst
Church in 1863.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Angels Playing Harps |
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a further Cartoon for glass painting prepared in the mid-1860s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Luna |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a design for
tile-painting produced in or
about 1868.
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This antique Photogravure shows
a decorative panel of a cabinet.
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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.
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The Son of God emptying
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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.
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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.
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The Angelic Choir |
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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.
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The End of the World |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a sketch for a panel for the decoration of the wall of a church.
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The Tree of Life |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a preliminary sketch for a design that appears to have been completed in mosaic
for St Paul's American Protestant Church in Rome.
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Decorative Ornament |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a design for a Decorative Ornament.
It shows a swallow-and-branch
design.
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Embroidered Bag |
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This antique Photogravure shows
a design for an Embroidered Bag.
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