Wilmington, Delaware.- The Delaware Art Museum is proud to present “A Secret Book of Designs: The Burne-Jones Flower Book”, on view at the museum from January 28th through April 22nd. Between 1882 and 1898, Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) periodically worked on a series of small, circular watercolor images, each inspired by the name of a flower. In 1905, after the artist’s death, his wife published these representations in an exquisite, labor-intensive facsimile edition limited to 300. “A Secret Book of Designs” will feature all 38 images from one of these rare un-bound books, recently acquired for the Museum’s Helen Farr Sloan Library & Archives. Edward Burne-Jones was profoundly inspired by the landscape surrounding his cottage in Rottingdean on the south coast of England, and he incorporated elements of the sea, the cliffs, and the downs into these images. He periodically retreated to this village to escape the social and professional demands of his life in London, seeking an opportunity to recharge both physically and creatively.