BIB_ID
313070
Accession number
MA 7792.25
Creator
Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.
Display Date
1897 Nov. 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection consisting of 64 letters from Sir Edward and Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones primarily to John Ruskin, Joan Severn, and their circle, dated ca. 1864 to 1918. Collection also contains copies of seven letters of Lady Burne-Jones to Ruskin from 1862, and three related envelopes. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "The Grange, / 49, North End Road, / West Kensington, W."
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "The Grange, / 49, North End Road, / West Kensington, W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Describing the change of management of the South London Fine Art Gallery, with which Edward Burne-Jones had been connected for the last ten years; saying that this Gallery has "transferred from private to public and local management and is henceforth to be maintained 'under the Public Libraries Act' by the parish of Camberwell; adding that "the old Council, of which we were members, still helps them by getting works of art lent;" saying that there has been a large Technical and Art School built next to the Gallery and since Ruskin "was a burning and shining light in that neighborhood" she wonders if he might "lend us something....to put in the School of Art....or to hang on the walls of the picture Gallery."
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