Tile Panel: Sleeping Beauty, 1860s, by Morris, Marshal, Falkner and Co, after Burne Jones. The first set was made for the artist Myles Birkett Foster in 1864. This later set made for Sir John Scott when a student at Pembroke College, Oxford, in the 1860s
For his fairy tale tiles Burne-Jones drew upon the wood engravings of Ludwig Richter (1803-1884) and the 1473 edition of Boccaccio's De Claris Mulieribus. With the tile series, the sequence of images resulted in the 1890 series of The Briar Rose.
16 June 1895 The E.B.J "Pan and Psyche" (195) is quite a different picture to the "Garden of Pan" which you saw at Agnews' which was sold for £3000. The "Pan and Psyche" (195) was mezzotinted by Campbell and there is a good photo by Hollyer.2 These are two pictures but both are equally good, I prefer the landscape in this one which I believe to be the first, as it is slightly smaller.3 E.B.J's pictures are apt to grow! The "Briar Rose" (188) is one of the many instances. That series began designs for tiles some 34 years back, I have the first sketches for them. The "Pan and Psyche" is a much smaller picture than "Garden of Pan," I consider 1800 guineas quite reasonable,