BIB_ID
373637
Accession number
MA 5161.3
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
1883 Jan. 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
On letterhead stationery: "The Grange, / West Kensington, / W."
Part of a collection of fifteen autograph letters signed from Edward Burne-Jones to William Holman Hunt. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 5161.1-15).
Part of a collection of fifteen autograph letters signed from Edward Burne-Jones to William Holman Hunt. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 5161.1-15).
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 15 Dec. 1970, lot 878); Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Discussing an assistant named Collins: "when you could not take him I felt bound to supply him with some occupation and so started another piece of work at which he is engaged now"; noting that Collins "is a sensitive person" and "the transfer [from assisting Burne-Jones to assisting Hunt] must be made with supreme delicacy"; remarking that Hunt will have to do the faces in the painting himself; offering to let Collins work for Hunt "if [he] can find no one."
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