The Flower Book - Comes he not?1905 Accession number: 1953P5.13 Colour facsimile. Collotype print. InformationA page from the facsimile edition of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, one of 38 watercolour designs reproduced by Henri Piazza et Cie, for the Fine Art Society, London in 1905.'Comes he not?' refers to a flower commonly known as 'love lies bleeding' or 'magic fountain', the amaranthus (Amaranthus caudatus). Burne-Jones had previously created three similar images of a woman, high up a tower, awaiting her lover: two of Hero, and one of Dorigen. The earliest image is circa 1867, a tile design for Hero, waiting for her lover atop a tower, with a small lamp at her side (current whereabouts unknown- see 'William Morris Tiles' by Richard and Hilary Myers). The second, is taken from Chaucer's 'Cantebury Tales', and is 'Dorigen of Bretaigne Awaiting the Safe Return of Her Husband' (V & A, 1871). The last is, 'Hero Lighting the Beacon for Leander' (Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, 1875-77).
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