Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . have trusted. I confess I marvelled at your braveryin so openly defying woman, but knew that youmust be justified in some consciousness of lo ! you are even as I, who boasted not. Still,we will have Barnum another night. I must seethe fat lady, and will. And then on the facing page he adds a monstrousportrait of that lady herself, a thing of unimaginedwealth of flesh, seated on a velvet cushion beforethe upturned eyes of a crowded theatre. Burne-Jones was wont to be lavish of thesehumorous sketches
Some eminent Victorians: personal recollections in the world of art and letters; . have trusted. I confess I marvelled at your braveryin so openly defying woman, but knew that youmust be justified in some consciousness of lo ! you are even as I, who boasted not. Still,we will have Barnum another night. I must seethe fat lady, and will. And then on the facing page he adds a monstrousportrait of that lady herself, a thing of unimaginedwealth of flesh, seated on a velvet cushion beforethe upturned eyes of a crowded theatre. Burne-Jones was wont to be lavish of thesehumorous sketches in letters to his intimate friends,and I have one or two supposed to illustrate aprojected fresh departure in his Art, wherein, underthe impulse of a new resolve, he was to abandonfinally all future effort after ideal design, and,conforming to that taste of the public which hehad hitherto failed to satisfy, to embark upon aseries of pictures to represent, as he told me, thehomes of England. I enclose a sketch, he writes, for my nextpicture. It is a new departure, but the public. O X
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