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This is the fifth and final design illustration for 'The Song of Solomon', with a quotation from Chapter 7, verse 6: 'Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness'. Maria Zambaco modelled for the figure of the girl in left profile, on the far right.

  • Presented by Mrs G F Watts, 1924.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
QVAE. EST. ISTA. QVAE. ASCENDIT. DE. DESERTO. DELICIIS. AFFLVENS. INNIXA. SVPER. DILECTVM. SVVM./ EBJ.
Inscription top centre Handwritten - Pencil. written in the artist's hand
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Midlands Art Tour
- Midland Area Travelling Exhibition 1966-12-03 - 1967-08-19
 
Burne-Jones: dal Preraffaelismo al Simbolismo
148 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome 1986-10-08 - 1986-11-26
 
Visions of Love and Life
101 (repro colour) Seattle Art Museum 1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
101 (repro colour) Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio 1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
101 (repro colour) Delaware Art Museum 1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
101 (repro colour) Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
101 (repro colour) High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
101 (repro colour) Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29
 
Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
83 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1998-06-04 - 1998-09-06
83 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery 1998-10-17 - 1999-01-17
83 Musée d'Orsay, Paris 1999-03-01 - 1999-06-06
 
Hidden Burne Jones
- Bmag G16 2007-04-04 - 2007-07-01
- Leighton House, London 2007-10 - 2008-01
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review
Malcolm Bell 1892 George Bell & Sons, London pp. 55, 96-97
 
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p. 98
 
Burne-Jones
Bill Waters, Martin Harrison 1973 Barrie & Jenkins, London p. 118
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 84

Associated people

Name Type
Maria Zambaco Artist's model

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