Manuscripts

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood correspondence

Description: A collection of letters, pen and ink drawings, etchings, sketches, diary pages, manuscripts, and poems by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The material was originally housed in one volume which was disbound by Huntington Library staff in 1975; the original binding (mssHM 12961) is housed in Box 3. The material is still window-mounted on original pages from the volume, many of the letters with envelopes.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1840-1909
Call number: mssHM 12895-12980
Creator: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of March 1940.

mssHM 12938-12980

Manuscripts

A collection of letters, pen and ink drawings, etchings, sketches, diary pages, manuscripts, and poems by members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The material was originally housed in one volume which was disbound by Huntington Library staff in 1975; the original binding (mssHM 12961) is housed in Box 3. The material is still window-mounted on original pages from the volume, many of the letters with envelopes.

mssHM 12895-12980

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Original binding

Manuscripts

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mssHM 12895-12937

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mssHM 12895-12980

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Pre-Raphaelite women : images of femininity

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"...Pre-Raphaelite Women explores the lives, art and influence of the women associated with the Pre-Raphaelite circle. As models, wives, and lovers of these artists, women such as Elizabeth Siddal, Jane Morris, Fanny Cornforth, Annie Miller, and Maria Zambaco were at the very core of the movement. This unique volume juxtaposes the stories of these women with the paintings they inspired, revealing the discrepancies between the art and the Pre-Raphaelites and their reality. Art authority Jan Marsh explains in her text just how different the painters' idealized visions of these women were from their everyday lives. While portrayed as saints, angels, femme fatales, and courtly ladies, many of the Pre-Raphaelite women came from ordinary, even squalid, backgrounds."--from book jacket.

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The Scribbler Magazine, New Year's Number

Manuscripts

Unique magazine in manuscript with original watercolors, etchings, etc.; with items laid into pocket at the end of the volume.

mssHM 84536

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The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, 1993 Fall

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The Sanford L. Berger papers consist chiefly of research material relating to the activities of California architect Sanford L. Berger, from the mid 1960s to the late 1990s, as a collector, student, and enthusiast of objects and knowledge related to 19th century English artist, decorator, poet, and printer William Morris and his circle. This finding aid provides a preliminary inventory of the collection and has been broadly arranged into eleven series. This collection contains a wide assortment of materials of varying research value. Because most items remain in the original order in which the Huntington received them, there is some overlap among series. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Berger and prominent individuals in Morrisian scholarly, academic, special collections libraries, book trade and museum circles in the United States and England (Series 1), as well copies of articles, clippings, ephemera, and research materials related to Morrisian topics (Series 2 and Series 5). The collection also contains administrative documents and ephemera related to museum exhibitions that included material from the Bergers' collection (Series 3), and specific research and travel files related to the story of Cupid and Psyche as recounted in Morris's The Earthly Paradise (Series 8); ecclesiastical stained glass installations of Morris & Co. visited by the Bergers (Series 9); and the Cranbrook Educational Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Series 7). Miscellaneous ephemera (Series 4) in the collection includes fine press book announcements, exhibition posters, postcards, clippings, photocopies and photographs of Morris designs, correspondence, notes and inventories made by Berger, 238 bifolios from The Golden Legend (Series 4, Box 64), and loose gatherings and separated leaves from miscellaneous imprints (Series 4, Box 65). Complimentary materials in the collection include items related to Berger's interest in contemporary and historical fine press printing, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area (Series 6) and two film reels from the 1970s (Series 10).

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