The Flower Book - Marvel of the World1905 Accession number: 1953P5.26 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. Uerscheln identifies horehound (Marrubium vulgare) as the plant 'Marvel of the World'; ginseng actually bears the common name 'Marvel [or Wonder] of the World' (Panax ginseng). This composition clearly has its roots in Botticelli's masterpiece, 'The Birth of Venus' (c. 1425, Uffizi Gallery), Burne-Jones created a similar image of the nude Venus in his 'Venus Anadyomene' a watercolour circa 1869 (Private Collection).
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