Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1840 - 1920
Biography
Georgiana Burne-Jones (1840-1920), Scottish artist and biographer
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Edward Burne-Jones Letters to John Ruskin
Collection
Call Number: MSS 56
Abstract:
The collection comprises letters from Edward Burne-Jones to John Ruskin, written from 1862 to ca. 1889.
Dates:
1862-ca. 1889
Edward Burne-Jones letter to Cormell Price, 1861 June 28
Item — Box 1, Folder: 14
Call Number: MSS 45
Scope and Contents:
Burne-Jones says he has been a "villain" in his lack of correspondence with Price and says that the rest of the day will be given over to writing him letters, remarking that although the letter will only take half an hour to write, "the exertion will completely do for [him]." He asks if Price is "lonely out there" and says he has encouraged William Morris to write to him and will try to get "everyone" to do the same. He says they will all be so glad when Price comes back. ...
Dates:
1861 June 28
Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin, 1862 June
Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Call Number: MSS 56
Scope and Contents:
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 Thanksgiving for the Victory of Lepanto in the Sala del Collegio. See Macarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012), 144.) Burne-Jones asks Ruskin to stay in Milan...
Dates:
1862 June
Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin, 1862 June
Item — Box 1, Folder: 2
Call Number: MSS 56
Scope and Contents:
Burne-Jones writes that (John William) Inchbold has arrived, bringing Ruskin's letter. Burne-Jones remarks upon his copies made for Ruskin: "four rotten little sketches; one of a head in the Veronese Triumph at the Ducal Palace, one of the Bacchus head of Tintoret (as nearly original size as I could guess), one of St. Catherine, and one of the Harem or Marriage of Cana. They really are so far more faithful than those I did under your...
Dates:
1862 June
Edward Burne-Jones letter to John Ruskin, 1862 June
Item — Box 1, Folder: 3
Call Number: MSS 56
Scope and Contents:
Burne-Jones writes in reply to a letter from Ruskin. He references a "Harry VIII," a nickname for a shared acquaintance who Georgiana Burne-Jones describes as "the boy." Burne-Jones writes that he has had a hard time seeing in the dark to make his copies for Ruskin. He has completed the "sketch of St. Sebastian" and states "today I make a sketch of the St. Catherine" (of Alexandria?). Burne-Jones and Georgiana are "longing" to be with Ruskin in Milan. "William started yesterday for Venice so...
Dates:
1862 June
George Eliot and George Henry Lewes collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 963
Abstract:
The collection includes correspondence by, to and about George Eliot and George Henry Lewes. There are four journals, one diary, several notebooks with notes for a projected novel, quotes, poetry, and early school essays all belonging to George Eliot, accompanied by reviews and scripts of dramatizations of Daniel Deronda in the 1920s and 1970s. With three journals, nine diaries, and notebooks with research notes belonging to George Henry Lewes, accompanied by...
Dates:
1834-1981
Letter : Rottingdean, England, to Mrs. Luzon B. Morris, 1913 Apr 13
Part of Collection — Box 42: [Barcode: 39002137225174], Folder: GROUP 1207, F-2
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS with envelope.
With a card engraved "Miss Morris" containing a manuscript note presenting Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones to Hamilton Hadley, dated 1916 Nov 22.
Removed from Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones (New York, 1906).
Dates:
1913 Apr 13
Letter : Rottingdean, England, to Sir Frederic Burton, 1899 Aug 19
Part of Collection — Box 42: [Barcode: 39002137225174], Folder: GROUP 1207, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
ALS regarding her husband's works of art.
Dates:
1899 Aug 19