The Flower Book - Wake, Dearest1905 Accession number: 1953P5.23 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. 'Wake, Dearest!' probably refers to the Arum triphyllum flower, which has the common names 'Wake Robin', 'Memory Root', 'Devil's Ear', or 'Jack-in-the-Pulpit'. The climactic moment of the prince waking the Sleeping Beauty with a kiss is absent from all Briar Rose images created by Burne-Jones save one - the sixth tile in a series he created for Morris & Co. in 1864 (V&A).
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