The Flower Book - Golden Shower1905 Accession number: 1953P5.18 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.Uerscheln states that this image refers to the pudding-pipe tree (Cassia fistula), but there is a flower native to Europe called the golden shower orchid (Oncidium). Burne-Jones was fond of depicting scenes of Danae, as in his various 'Danae and the Brazen Tower' pictures (Ashmolean Museum, circa 1867; Glasgow Art Museum, 1887-88). This image differs in that it shows Danae actually within the confines of the tower itself, rather than the girl staring at the instrument of her imprisonment being constructed.
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