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BURNE-JONES, EDWARD

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BURNE-JONES, EDWARD
(1833 - 1898) Prolific English painter in the Pre-Raphaelite tradition, a protTgT of Dante Rossetti and John Ruskin. A fine lot of thirteen good-content A.L.S. signed with his initials ""E. B. J."", written to various recipients ca. 1860s-1870s, three of which are adorned with ink sketches. In small part: ""...Well, about the portrait...see the little damsel and her mother & talk with her about it. I am possibly busy with much at present...Any how two artists can help each other against the world...and can sustain and encourage each other and keep aspiration alive...I could do nothing in the way of a drawing, being slow handed and anxious about my work. I know I could make nothing of a drawing & it would be shame to drag you & him here when time is so short...One day when he...has more time I might be allowed to make the drawing which I should exceedingly like to do...I thank him for promising to sit for me...Tomorrow morn you can get the cartoon as far as I had time to carry it, it will do for the purpose, not of adorning the altar on the high festival but for judging what kind of strength and light and dark will serve but for that trying light...You should have it to look at and send round to the Church...Note that one is in no sense bound to the color or tone or indeed action in expression - it is a tentative affair, it is a bit rough cartoon...please explain this...How unfortunate I am - I suppose it was the Botticelli book...I shall be glad when you...can come. The studio at least is settled and I am at work again. I am afraid it will be a great tax upon friends to come so far out, but when you see the size of the studio you will understand how irresistible it was...It is so out of the way that I ought to accompany every letter with a map [followed by a drawing of a map]...Meantime, the form of the instrument I want is this [drawing of a horn]...Excuse the pencil I have no ink anywhere...I have written to ask him to come here tonight, I had sent him my [sketch of a seated man]...He told me you were reading John Ingelsant aloud...The story is beneath criticism...but there is a sort of genius somewhere in the book..."". Some light soiling, overall very good. Certainly worthy of further research.