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The story of Briar Rose (known popularly as "Sleeping Beauty") occupied Burne-Jones on and off for much of his career. He completed three related sets of paintings of the subject over a 30-year period. This drawing probably relates to the first series, now in the Museo de Arte in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Here, vines twist in arabesques against a flat, chartreuse background, as though ensnaring the six servants asleep at a loom and well.</div>
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Edward Burne-Jones</div>
1870<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1870-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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