The Flower Book - Witch's Tree1905 Accession number: 1953P5.15 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.'Witches' tree' is a common name for the rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) also known as 'witch wood' or 'witch bane'. It is also used to sometimes describe hawthorn or blackthorn. This picture clearly derives from what is perhaps the greatest of Burne-Jones's paintings, 'The Beguiling of Merlin' (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside, 1873-75), although the placement of both Nimue and Merlin is reversed.
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