apeironaxiomaton:Edward Burne-Jones, paintings from The Flower Book (1882-1898)The Flower Book colle
apeironaxiomaton:Edward Burne-Jones, paintings from The Flower Book (1882-1898)The Flower Book collects 38 round watercolors by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones based on the folknames of flowers. Burne-Jones said that he wanted “the name and the picture to be one soul together, and indissoluble, as if they could not exist apart” and that “it is not enough to illustrate them—that is such poor work: I want to add to them or wring their secret from them.” He left the series to his wife, Georgina, who published them in a facsimile edition of 300 in 1905. -- source link