Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin, 1880s?
- Call Number:
- MSS 56
- Creator:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
- Title(s):
- Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin
- Date:
- 1880s?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 6
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- "My Blessed, Do maids dust your pictures - and if so do they treat you as I am treated? Every morning my engravings, pictures, all my treasures hanging on the wall look like this: [Pen-and-ink sketch of pictures hanging off-kilter on the wall]. Every evening I set them straight and look at them longingly like this: [Sketch of Burne-Jones reclining on a sofa with straightened pictures behind him on the wall]. And every morning again: [Sketch of Burne-Jones crouched below his pictures hanging in disarray.] Do they do that to you? Ever your old same, most ancient, Ned. My love to Joan - O what a dear priceless Joan - Joan to nurse me when I'm poorly -"
- Additional Notes:
- Printed letterhead: The Grange, West Kensington, W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 17.5 x 23 cm folded to 17.5 x 11.5 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- CopyingPaintersPainting, BritishPicture frames and framingPictures
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great BritainTorcello (Italy)Venice (Italy)
- Associated People/Groups:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Severn, Joan, 1846-1924
- Finding Aid Title:
- Edward Burne-Jones Letters to John Ruskin
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781761
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781761?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1