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Pre-Raphaelite women : images of femininity

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    The Pre-Raphaelites

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    Chart the rise and legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and see how this most admired British art movement was born. Dozens of reproductions attest to these painters' scrupulous attention to natural details. More than 40 artists are represented, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Arthur Hughes, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, and Ford Maddox Brown.

    608105

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    The Pre-Raphaelites

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    Chart the rise and legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and see how this most admired British art movement was born. Dozens of reproductions attest to these painters' scrupulous attention to natural details. More than 40 artists are represented, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Arthur Hughes, Edward Burne-Jones, John William Waterhouse, and Ford Maddox Brown.

    608488

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    Pre-Raphaelite ballads

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    This little art book contains several of William Morris' short poems, originally published in 1858 in his book of poetry, The defense of Guenevere, and other poems. Here they have been illustrated with woodcut engravings and reprinted in the style of Morris' Kelmscott Press.

    607352

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    Studio International,[May, 1972]

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    Hilton, Tim, "Pre – Raphaelite Problems", 218-221. Markers between pp. 192 & 193 and 218 & 219. Laid in: Exhibition pamphlet from the Whitechapel Art Gallery's "The Pre-Raphaelites" exhibition held May 16 – June 14, 1972.

    633396

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    Silent margins

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    A review of Woman/image/text : readings in Pre-Raphaelite art and literature / by Lynne Pearce. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1991; University of Toronto Press, 1992.

    608101

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    John Ruskin Collection

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    This collection contains approximately 175 pieces of correspondence and manuscripts related to English author John Ruskin (1819-1900) that deal chiefly with his career as a writer, professor, and art critic. The earliest item in the collection is a volume titled Practical Geometry, containing problems and exercises, with some additional sketches and notes by Ruskin, dated 1833 (HM 6103). The correspondence series includes: 61 letters, dated 1858-1873, to Louisa Anne De La Poer Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, a Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist. 11 letters to Sarah Corlass (circa 1850-1865) 12 letters to actor Norman Forbes in 1888 26 letters to novelist Margaret Raine Hunt, from 1867 to 1887 6 letters to John Henry Larkin For a detailed list of Ruskin's artwork within the collection, see "A Checklist of Pre-Raphaelite Works of Art in the Huntington Library and Art Collections," Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 55, No. 1 (Winter, 1992), pp. 225-251.

    mssHM 6097-6129, etc.