1593000280000 1581951264000 Standard Record object-110005771 1762192907668 1762186337000 1762192905244 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005771 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005771 bc171101-0937-38e4-bddd-6e2c5efa7647 13 person reference agent-20455 adlib-agent-20455 2e5a35bc-2d58-3204-b353-5859880dd624 Burne-Jones, Edward person reference agent-20459 adlib-agent-20459 9a042e86-e533-395e-a8a8-47700da2d7c7 Burne-Jones, Georgiana content description Sixty-seven autograph letters from John Ruskin to Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones. Mainly covering personal matters: travels, meetings, family matters, romantic attachments, deaths (including John James Ruskin), work patterns, health, state of mind; mentions Whistler's libel action, burning of T.M. Rooke's drawings of St. Marks, painting of Venus by Kate Greenaway; thoughts on paintings by Burne-Jones has seen, some critical ('We mustn't have English oak looking like seaweed' X.28); asks Burne-Jones to (re)begin his Prosperpine (X.52) and discusses various things he wants him to design, including a Hawthorne cross (with sketch) (X.53) and 'a set of simple line illustrations of mythology and figurative creatures' for a book (X.2); conveys petition of the Principal, Governesses, and Scholars of Whitelands College that Burne-Jones paint the windows of their chapel (X.52); discusses Royal Institution lecture on Modern Art, a lecture he is to give on Burne-Jones at Oxford; various references in later letters to plans for autobiographical work, Praeterita. Also includes a telegram, handed in at Coriston: 'I am delighted it is as nuts to a squirrel to me' (X.31A). Several letters feature illustration, including a sketch in ink of an angel from an upright received from Florence (X.24) and the design of a shield he is working on (X.29). BURNE-JONES/X 1 accession number BURNE-JONES/X 110005771 priref 110005771 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005771 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005771 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1863 1863 1863 1863 1888 1863-1888 1 1888 1888 1888 reference agent-119072 adlib-agent-119072 bf62a95f-8007-34ac-b91e-2fb0f5b7a2a2 Ruskin, John 67 letters MS Autograph Letters: John Ruskin to Edward and Georgiana Burne-Jones object OBJECT