Hughes cover for Shakespeare

pub. 1992- enlarged 2003- cover design by Robert Mathias -cover illus. is a detail from 'The Pained Heart, or Sigh no more Ladies' by Arthur Highes

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Edward Burne-Jones - A sketch of Frances Graham

Edward Burne-Jones - The Rottingdean Venus

Edward Burne-Jones - Dinner Party

BJ was very social but hated boring dinner parties.

Edward Burne-Jones - The Garden of Pan

1886-7

Edward Burne-Jones - Margaret as The Sleeping Princess

A study for the Princess in the Briar Rose paintings
using his daughter Margaret as a model

Bless Ye My Children

May 1896
BJ and Morris being blessed by Chaucer following the completion of the Kelmscott Chaucer

John William Waterhouse - Circe

Price Realized £113,750

oil on canvas
34 x 303/8 in. (86.3 x 77.2 cm.)

The picture is clearly related to The Sorceress, an unfinished canvas by Waterhouse of circa 1911, which would itself more suitably be called Circe since it is inscribed with this title on the back and includes two animals, the victims of Circe's charms, at the left (see Anthony Hobson, The Art and Life of J.W. Waterhouse, 1980, p.128, no. 182.) The attitude of the figures in each picture is almost identical.

Circe was a favourite subject with Waterhouse and other artists in the late Pre-Raphaelite tradition. Waterhouse's main treatments of the theme are Circe offering the Cup to Ullyses (1891, Oldham; illus. Hobson, 1980, pl. 50; 1989, pl. 31) and Circe Invidiosa (1892,
Adelaide; illus. Hobson, 1980, pl. 53; 1989, pl. 32).

We are grateful to the late Dr. Anthony Hobson, and Peter Trippi for their help in the preparation of this catalogue entry.

Edward Burne-Jones - Margaret Burne-Jones

1877
aged 12

Edward Burne-Jones - Sibylla Delphica

1886
exhibited at the Grovesnor Gallery the same year