The Flower Book - Golden Greeting1905 Accession number: 1953P5.17 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.'Golden greeting' is a common name for the marigold (Solis sponsa). The composition bears a remarkable resemblance to Burne-Jones's 'Blessed Damozel'; a watercolour in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1860; and two illustrations, both in the British Museum, 'Little Holland House Album' and 'The Secret Book of Designs' 1885, based on the original poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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