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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Study of a crown of myrtle leaves around a faintly sketched head for The Golden Stairs in an Album of forty-eight drawings
pencil on paper
1876 circa
Dimensions: 20.1 cm x 13.7 cm
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Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum
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Myrtle in the language of flowers (Phillips 1825) means love.
William Waters
11/01/2021
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no.
circa
Mrs Helen Mary “May” Gaskell (née Helen Mary Melville, Mrs. Henry Gaskell)
1939
Ashmolean Museum
1939 - Present
WA1939.9.7 Presented by Mrs Helen Mary Gaskell, CBE, 1939
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William Morris: A Life for Our Time
Fiona MacCarthy
1994
p. XIV
A Profound Secret: May Gaskell and her Daughter Amy, and Edward Burne-Jones
Josceline Rose Dimbleby, née Gaskell
2004
p 192-193
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
Fiona MacCarthy
2011
illus colour pl. XXVIII between pp. 358-359 pp. 208, 237-238, 245, 276-278, 285-288, 292-293, 297, 322, 340, 355, 362, 373, 378, 388, 394, 407-426, 454, 514, 530