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By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
EB-J's cat Tom running to Join the Family Welcome to Miss Lyon (in an EB-J letter to Mrs Beddington, January 25, 1850)
MS letter, pen and ink on paper
1850
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Caricatures, Amusing and Personal drawings, Manuscript documents, Works on Paper / Vellum
Signed: Edw. C.B. Jones Archp of Canterbury (elect)
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The letter was written to a member of the Jewish family lived next door to the Burne-Jones's in Bennett's Hill, Birmingham. She had recently married and moved to London and Burne-Jones's object was to announce the safe return of an aunt who had been visiting her but scrupled to write herself on the Jewish Sabbath. The drawing shows Burne-Jones and his cat Tom, running to join the reunion. The reference to 'state affairs' and the signature - Edw. C.B. Jones Archp of Canterbury (elect)' are a joking reference to Burne-Jones's clerical ambitions at this date.

John Christian
18/06/2023
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1898-1904
The Fitzwilliam Museum 1904 - Present BURNE-JONES/XV/1
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones GB-J Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1904
vol I, illus p. 43
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. II between pp. 102-103 and pls. XXII, XXVII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 112, 115, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 330, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-18, 20-45, 47-71, 75-95, 97, 99, 109, 111-122, 124-138, 140-150, 153-154, 156-168, 170-203, 205, 207-214, 216-219, 220-224, 229-232, 234-235, 237-242, 245, 247-249, 251-252, 254-262, 264-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-351, 354, 357-361, 363-385, 386-390, 398-400, 402, 404-416, 418-446, 451-472, 474, 476, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-502, 504-518, 520, 522-530, 534, 536


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