Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898, Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin, 1862 June
- Call Number:
- MSS 56
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898
- Title(s):
- Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin
- Date:
- 1862 June
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 1
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund.
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Burne-Jones is working on a "little head of Paolo in the Ducal Pal[ace]" for Ruskin and is anxious about the quality. (Fiona Macarthy has identified this to be a study from Veronese's <title>Thanksgiving for the Victory of Lepanto in the Sala del Collegio</title>. See Macarthy, <title>The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination</title>, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 144.) Burne-Jones asks Ruskin to stay in Milan and not to visit "the mountain" (presumably the Alps). Burne-Jones describes his encounter with Gentile Bellini's painting of St. Mark (<title>St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria</title>, 1504-7) and his amazement over its detail: "it is quite as exact as a photograph, with colour besides." Burne-Jones writes of the restorations at St. Mark's: "all the R[ight] side is covered up and sealed off, it is so miserable." Burne-Jones worries that the Bellini painting soon "might be the only record of that 7th heaven." Burne-Jones ends his letter to Ruskin with, "Goodbye, of course Georgie [Georgiana Burne-Jones] who is madly in love with you sends love. We have endearing names for you which wild horses would not extort from us in confession. Ned. " Partially reproduced in Georgiana Burne-Jones, Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, vol. 1. (London: Macmillan, 1904), 245.
- Additional Notes:
- With later annotation, in graphite: Hotel de Ville, Venice.
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 21 x 26 cm folded to 21 x 13 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- CopyingPaintersPainting, BritishPicture frames and framingPictures
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great BritainTorcello (Italy)Venice (Italy)
- Associated People/Groups:
- Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy)Bellini, Gentile, -1507Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Veronese, 1528-1588
- Finding Aid Title:
- Edward Burne-Jones Letters to John Ruskin
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11067.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781756
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2781756?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1