Over the summer of 1857 three Oxford undergraduates, Rossetti, Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, shared rooms in George Street.

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Also on display are 50 objects from the collections of the Yale Center for British Art and elsewhere at Yale, including maps, atlases, and works by Samuel Palmer, Edward Burne-Jones and August Welby Pugin.

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These include William Holman Hunt's beautiful "The Eve of Saint Agnes" (after Keats's poem) and the very early "Arming of a Knight" chair decorated by William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (exhibited with a youthful self-caricature by Edward Burne-Jones in which he depicts himself admiring that chair while seated on it).

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