The Flower Book - Ladder of Heaven1905 Accession number: 1953P5.12 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.As Uerscheln states Lily-of-the-valley is sometimes known as 'Ladder of Heaven', but also is used for the Easter lily (Lilium longiflorum) or 'Mary's Tears', as it is known in Marian circles. This particular image of a soul ascending a rainbow ladder to heaven, is used by Burne-Jones twice in 1874, in two 'Ascension of Christ' pieces. The first, in stained glass, is at St. Anne's Church, in Brown Edge, Staffordshire, in the centre top light of the east window. It again appears in a version now in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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