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It is a highly finished design for a large needlework panel, but now it is considered to be a great watercolour in its own right. Burne-Jones (1833-1898) made several such designs, some of which were worked up into tapestry or needlework by the young Frances Graham, with whom Burne Jones later fell in love.","physicalDescription":"Cartoon for needle work picture, 'Love with bow surrounded by children and standing beneath a cloud of doves'. The painting is inscribed with a line from Dante's Divina Commedia: 'L'amor che muove il sole e l'altre stelle' (the love that moves the sun and the other stars).  It is a highly finished design for a large needlework panel.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Burne-Jones, Edward Coley (Sir)","id":"A8203"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"Cloth","id":"AAT162391"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Watercolour","id":"THES250889"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour on cloth","categories":[{"text":"Paintings","id":"THES48917"},{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Embroidery","id":"THES48960"},{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[{"text":"British School","id":"x30967"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2006AV3409"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"315","id":"THES49535"},"free":"","case":"R","shelf":"31","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"painting","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1880s","earliest":"1880-01-01","latest":"1889-12-31"},"association":{"text":"painted","id":"x30138"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by the Hon. 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The model for the beggar-maid was Frances Graham, and Burne-Jones had fallen in love with her.  In 1883, to his great dismay, she announced her impending marriage, and he painted in anenomes - the symbol of rejected love and death -  around the figure of the beggar-maid.  Here too, in Love, the colours of anemones predominate, rich scarlets and purples against cobalt and turquoise.  Just as Dante lost his beloved Beatrice, and Rossetti his Lizzie, so Burne-Jones, on more than one occasion, lost his heart to those like Frances who were unable to return his love.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Watercolour cartoon for a needlework picture, 'Love' by Edward Burne-Jones, British, 1880s.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937</u>, London: Board of Education, 1938."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"In <u>'Inventing Van Eyck- The Remaking of an Artist for the Modern Age'</u>, Oxford, New York: Berg, 2007, Jenny Graham reveals that Burne-Jones had purchased a set of photographs in the 1860's depicting Hans Memling's Shrine of St. Ursula.  St. Ursula sometimes shares an iconographic detail with the Madonna of Mercy (also known as the Madonna della Misericordia, or the Virgin of Mercy), in that their outspread cloaks are used to shelter a group of people.  The figure of St. Ursula is usually holding an arrow, making it easier to differentiate the two.  Burne-Jones's wife recalled that he had paid 'nearly all that he had' for these photographs depicting the shrine.  Jenny Graham asserts that he used these images as the basis for the design of this cartoon in the 1880s, employing the motif of the protective cloak."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"Costume","id":"AAT209261"},{"text":"Flowers","id":"x31099"},{"text":"Weapons","id":"AAT36926"},{"text":"Birds","id":"AAT211235"},{"text":"children","id":"x31526"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.838-1937"],"accessionNumberNum":"838","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1937,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-13","recordCreationDate":"1999-12-15","availableToBook":false}}