GOLDEN STAIRS 1893 Edward Coley Burne-Jones - Frederick Hollyer Murray PRINT

Original 1893 8 inch x 3 3/8 inch Print titled THE GOLDEN STAIRS

This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and the meaning of this work has been debated by critics. One suggestion is that the staircase, without visible beginning or end, represents continuous movement. Models for the painting include Frances Graham, daughter of Burne-Jones’s patron William Graham and Mary Gladstone, daughter of British Prime Minister WE Gladstone. Burne-Jones’s daughter, Margaret, is pictured at the top of the stairs.

From a photograph by by Frederick Hollyer (1838 - 1933). An English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings, particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and for portraits of literary and artistic figures of late Victorian and Edwardian London.

The painting is by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898). A British artist and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked with William Morris on decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

Published in the Art Journal 1893

Page size 12 1/2 inch x 9 1/4 inch

The print is in very good condition. Printed text surrounding the image and on the reverse with another print by Burne-Jones