BIB_ID
313708
Accession number
MA 7795.3
Creator
Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894.
Display Date
[1872] Feb. 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from James Anthony Froude to John Ruskin and Joan Severn. 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 from 5 Onslow Gardens.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written from 5 Onslow Gardens.
Year of writing from a penciled notation by Helen Gill Viljoen at the top of p. 1.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Commenting on Ruskin's Art Lectures which he has been reading; asking "But what is there about art which carries by the side of its brightness such an awful shadow? Why among the most cultivated of the Greeks--why among the Italians, do we find the most hideous immorality just when the art seems most brilliant in popular imagination?" concluding "Any way you make me see from your point of view what I have long seen from my own that under the illusion of pretended liberty, which possesses the modern world like a madness all forms of existing society are destined to fall in pieces. The ideas on which they have grown are worn out [.]--The edifice is resolving itself into its human atoms--and then--what then?"
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