BIB_ID
373642
Accession number
MA 5161.5
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of thirteen autograph letters signed from Edward Burne-Jones to William Holman Hunt and two autograph letters signed from Burne-Jones to Edith 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
Observing that Hunt is "wearying and worrying [him]self to bits" about his work; noting that he "quite understand[s]" Hunt's concerns about his painting: "I think half my time is spent in a sort of despair & the few gleams of hope I ever have about work are so few -- & get fewer as years go -- & work takes longer & the heart is heavier year after year -- & what used to be in youth's ignorance such a dream that one day one would wake up a master & know how to do all that seemed good is but a dream -- & the day never comes -- our lives go by like that"; remarking that Hunt is "breaking [his] heart after this picture"; advising him to stick to his plan of setting a certain date for finishing the picture and doing no more work on it after that date; telling him to send word if he would like to dine in town.
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