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".

Above, we show a vintage photograph

of Edward Burne-Jones

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

Christ's Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem

The Passing of Venus

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This antique Heliochrome shows a Cartoon in

pastel for Glass Painting prepared in 1882.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ CTEJ 12x18
Price: US$60.00

This antique Heliochrome shows a design for Arras Tapestry.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ PV 12x18
Price: US$60.00

The Heart of the Lotus

Clavichord and Case decorated with painted ornament

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This antique Heliochrome shows a design

for an embroidery prepared in 1880.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ HL 12x18
Price: US$60.00

This antique Heliochrome shows a commission for the ornamental

decoration of a Clavichord and the associated Case.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ CCDPO 12x18
Price: US$60.00

Flora

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.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ F 12x18
Price: US$60.00

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.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ VHG 12x18
Price: US$60.00

The Hill-Fairies

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Presented as a Diptych

A pair of images on a single 18x24" Fine Art Poster

Code: EBJ HF1|2 18x24
Price: US$150.00

Paradise, with the Adoration of the Lamb

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Presented as a Pentaptych

A group of five images on a single 8x10" Fine Art Poster

Code: EBJ PAL1|2|3|4|5 8x10
Price: US$30.00

Amor, Fama, Fortuna and Oblivio

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Presented as a Tetraptych

A group of four images on a single 18x24" Fine Art Poster

Code: EBJ AFFO1|2|3|4 18x24
Price: US$150.00

Luna

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Fine Art Poster (8x10")

Code: EBJ L 8x10
Price: US$30.00

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".

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.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ GS 12x18
Price: US$60.00

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ AEF 12x18
Price: US$60.00

Procession of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

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.

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.

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ PSQS 12x18
Price: US$60.00

Fine Art Poster (12x18'')

Code: EBJ SS 12x18
Price: US$60.00

The Martyrdom of St Stephen

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

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

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

This antique Photogravure shows a Cartoon for glass painting prepared in the mid-1860s.

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Angels Playing Harps

This antique Photogravure shows a further Cartoon for glass painting prepared in the mid-1860s.

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The Evangelic Symbols of St Matthew and St Mark

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

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

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

This antique Photogravure shows a design for

tile-painting produced in or about 1868.

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King René Painting

This antique Photogravure shows a decorative panel of a cabinet.

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The Birth of Pegasus and Chrysaor

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 Himself of His Glory

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

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

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

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

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

This antique Photogravure shows a design for a Decorative Ornament.

It shows a swallow-and-branch design.

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Embroidered Bag

This antique Photogravure shows a design for an Embroidered Bag.

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