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The Great Bookcase is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges. The bookcase is 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide. It has been described as "the most important example of Victorian painted furniture ever made." The bookcase was included in the 1862 International Exhibition in London, where it was displayed in the Medieval Court. A cabinet designed by Burges and painted by Poynter was also displayed at the exhibition. The Great Bookcase was poorly received by the Building News and Architectural Review at the exhibition.

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rdfs:label	Great Bookcase (en)
rdfs:comment	The Great Bookcase is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges. The bookcase is 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide. It has been described as "the most important example of Victorian painted furniture ever made." The bookcase was included in the 1862 International Exhibition in London, where it was displayed in the Medieval Court. A cabinet designed by Burges and painted by Poynter was also displayed at the exhibition. The Great Bookcase was poorly received by the Building News and Architectural Review at the exhibition. (en)
name	The Great Bookcase (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Sappho Arachne Holland Park Charles Handley-Read Victoria and Albert Museum John Anster Fitzgerald 1862 International Exhibition Saint Augustine Orpheus Christianity Cock Robin Edward Burne-Jones Edward Poynter Frederick Smallfield Cornice The Tower House 1862 in art Apelles Siren (mythology) Phaon Syrinx William Burges William Frederick Yeames Aesop's fables Albert Joseph Moore Dante Gabriel Rossetti Oxford Pagan Pygmalion (mythology) Rhodopis Henry Holiday Simeon Solomon Ashmolean Museum Collection of the Ashmolean Museum Kenneth Clark Plato William Burges furniture Knightshayes Court Metamorphosis Nathaniel Westlake Yale University Press Saint Cecilia Thomas Morten Pre-Raphaelite Harpie Pierides dbr:Charles_Rossiter
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date	1859 (xsd:integer)
depth	49.5 (centimetre)
designer	William Burges Painters: William Burges, Edward Burne-Jones, John Anster Fitzgerald, Henry Holiday, Stacy Marks, Albert Moore, Thomas Morton, Edward Poynter, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Rossiter, Frederick Smallfield, Simeon Solomon, William Frederick Yeames, Frederick Weeks, Nathaniel Westlake (en)
height	317.5 (centimetre)
style	Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood High Victorian Gothic, (en)
width	173.9 (centimetre)
has abstract	The Great Bookcase is a large piece of painted furniture designed by the English architect and designer William Burges. The bookcase is 10 feet (3.0 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide. It has been described as "the most important example of Victorian painted furniture ever made." The paintings on the bookcase depict pagan and Christian art depicted in "allegories of poetry, architecture, sculpture, painting and music". Believed to have been constructed by the firm of Thomas Sneddon, it was designed in 1859 and finished in 1862. Christian themes are painted on the left side of the bookcase, and pagan themes on the right, decorated by fourteen Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian artists The bookcase was included in the 1862 International Exhibition in London, where it was displayed in the Medieval Court. A cabinet designed by Burges and painted by Poynter was also displayed at the exhibition. The Great Bookcase was poorly received by the Building News and Architectural Review at the exhibition. The bookcase was designed by Burges to hold his collection of art books, and was originally displayed at his rooms in Buckingham Street in London. It was later placed in the library at the house Burges had designed for himself, The Tower House in Holland Park. The architectural writer and collector and Burges connoisseur Charles Handley-Read described the bookcase as "occupying a unique position in the history of Victorian painted furniture." In 1933, the bookcase was purchased for the Ashmolean Museum by Kenneth Clark, Clark paying £50. After periods on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum and at Knightshayes Court, the bookcase has now been returned to the collection of the museum in Oxford and is on show in its Pre-Raphaelite gallery. (en)
collection	Oxford Ashmolean Museum
made in	London, England (en)
materials	Oak, carved, painted and gilt (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	List of furniture by William Burges 1862 in art The Tower House William Burges Ashmolean Museum Bookcase

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