![Music-making appears throughout the work of Edward Burne-Jones, including the painting Laus Veneris [1873-8; oil paint on canvas; Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/laus_veneris_x33381.jpg "Music-making appears throughout the work of Edward Burne-Jones, including the painting Laus Veneris [1873-8; oil paint on canvas; Laing Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums]")
![One exhibition highlight is The Graham Piano (1879-80), depicting the tragic love story of Orpheus [Private Collection]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/the_graham_piano_1879-1880.jpg "One exhibition highlight is The Graham Piano (1879-80), depicting the tragic love story of Orpheus [Private Collection]")
![Frances Graham is also depicted as an ethereal figure in a white gown in The Golden Stairs, holding a pair of cymbals [1880; Oil paint on canvas; Tate]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/the_golden_stairs_1880.jpg "Frances Graham is also depicted as an ethereal figure in a white gown in The Golden Stairs, holding a pair of cymbals [1880; Oil paint on canvas; Tate]")
![Other works in the major retrospective - the first of the artist's work in a generation - includes Love Among the Ruins [1870-1873; Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic on paper; Private collection]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/love_among_the_ruins_x65317.jpg "Other works in the major retrospective - the first of the artist's work in a generation - includes Love Among the Ruins [1870-1873; Watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic on paper; Private collection]")
![The Love Song (Le Chant D’Amour), depicts a young woman playing a portable organ [1865; Transparent and opaque watercolour on paper; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Martin Brimmer]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/the_love_song_le_chant_damour_1868-1873.jpg "The Love Song (Le Chant D’Amour), depicts a young woman playing a portable organ [1865; Transparent and opaque watercolour on paper; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Martin Brimmer]")
![Angeli Laudantes (Salisbury Cathedral) [1878; Coloured chalks on paper, stretched over a canvas covered frame; The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/angeli_laudantes_salisbury_cathedral_1878.jpg "Angeli Laudantes (Salisbury Cathedral) [1878; Coloured chalks on paper, stretched over a canvas covered frame; The Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge]")
![The Lament [1865-1866; Watercolour and bodycolour on paper mounted on canvas; Brangwyn gift, 1941. William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest]](https://www.gramophone.co.uk/sites/default/files/the_lament_1865-66.jpg "The Lament [1865-1866; Watercolour and bodycolour on paper mounted on canvas; Brangwyn gift, 1941. William Morris Gallery, London Borough of Waltham Forest]")
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