. Burne-Jones. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PlateI. The Depths Of the Sea . Frontispiece In the possession of R. H. Benson, Esq. Page II. Sidonia von Bork 14 In the possession of W. Graham Robertson, Esq. III. Sponsa di Libano 24 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool IV. Sibylla Delphica 34 Manchester Art Gallery V. The Mill 40 South Kensington Museum VI. King: Cophetua and the Begrgar Maid . 50 The Tate Gallery VII. Danae (The Tower of Brass) ... 60 Glasgow Corporation Art Gallery VIII. The Enchantments of Nimue ... 70 South Kensington Museum vu. THE place which should be assigned toSir Edward Burne-Jones i
. Burne-Jones. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PlateI. The Depths Of the Sea . Frontispiece In the possession of R. H. Benson, Esq. Page II. Sidonia von Bork 14 In the possession of W. Graham Robertson, Esq. III. Sponsa di Libano 24 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool IV. Sibylla Delphica 34 Manchester Art Gallery V. The Mill 40 South Kensington Museum VI. King: Cophetua and the Begrgar Maid . 50 The Tate Gallery VII. Danae (The Tower of Brass) ... 60 Glasgow Corporation Art Gallery VIII. The Enchantments of Nimue ... 70 South Kensington Museum vu. THE place which should be assigned toSir Edward Burne-Jones in the historyof modern art is by no means easy to define,for his work with its unusual qualities ofintention and achievement does not lenditself readily to classification. At the out-set of his career he might with some 9 io BURNE-JONES justice have been numbered with the Pre-Raphaelites, because the first influencesto which he responded were those whichdirected the Pre-Raphaelite movement, andbecause in his earliest productions heshowed that these influences had countedfor much in the shaping of his aestheticinclinations. But as he developed he madeplainer and more convincing the assertionof his individuality, he ceased to be simplya follower of a movement, and evolved forhimself a system of aesthetic practice whichwas personal both in aim and in mannerof expression. That in formulating thissystem he borrowed much from early Italianart, that he based himself upon certain re-mote masters, with whose primitive methodshe was d
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