Wednesday 30 January 2008

Pre-Raphealite treasures

This article fascinated me, it was in yesterdays
Guardian;

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Two Pre-Raphaelite masterpieces found in the kitchen and above the electric fireplace of an unassuming terrace house in Oxford have been uncovered and are to be put on public display.

A watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was found in Preston's kitchen, while an oil painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones was hanging above an electric fire in her crowded living room.


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click here for the online version

unfortunately it doesn't show the beautiful
paintings in the online story, or the very
dull looking garaged fronted terraced house
they lay hidden.

2 comments:

  1. what a story! In the kitchen! God i hope no one cooked there!!!

    amazing all of those items found.
    thanks for posting such a cool article.

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  2. i am glad that someone else read the article..
    i thought it was an amazing story..

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