The Flower Book - Saturn's Loathing1905 Accession number: 1953P5.30 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. 'Saturn's Loathing' refers to thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a play on words and association by Burne-Jones, as Saturn, in his Greek guise is 'Cronos', or 'Father Time'. Thyme was known throughout 16th century Britain as 'Mother-of-Thyme' or 'Mother Thyme'. Two paintings of the late 1880s recall this scene, 'Flodden Field' (Musee d'Orsay, 1882) and 'Sun Ripening Corn' (Tate Britain, c. 1889).
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