Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and the Graiae 1877 Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and gesso on oak, 152 x 169 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This extraordinary work occupies the boundary between painting and sculpture, and was the centrepiece of one…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…
Morris, William (1834-1896) Strawberry Thief design registered 1883, printed 1917–1923 Cotton, 274.3 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) The Road from Market 1767–1768 Oil on canvas, 121.3 x 170.2 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…
Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851) The Campo Santo, Venice 1842 Oil on canvas, 62.2 x 92.7 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Venice is radiant, if somewhat shabby, in Joseph Mallord William Turner’s view north across the Venetian Lagoon. The city…
Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) & Morris, William (1834-1896) The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer 1896 Wood engraving, 42.2 x 28.9 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Designer: William Morris (British, 1834-1896); Artist: Edward Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898); Publisher: Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith (London), 1896; Author:…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Salutation of Beatrice 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 154.3 × 91.4 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo The woman in this painting embodies the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty with her pale face, full lips, and thick, wavy,…
Morris, William (1834-1896) A Girl with a Flute s.d. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 27.3 x 14 cm Tate Britain, London
Morris, William (1834-1896) La Belle Iseult 1858 Oil on canvas, 71.8 x 50.2 cm Tate Britain, London This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married…