BIB_ID
313103
Accession number
MA 7792.33
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.0 cm
Notes
A notation by Helen Gill Viljoen included with this letter suggests it may have been written in 1871. " Aratra Pentelici" was a series of six lectures on the Elements of Sculpture, delivered by Ruskin at Oxford in 1870 and published in 1872.
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).
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).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Praising "Aratra Pentelici".
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