| Description | LH/7/2/4/250/1 Administration 4 items Proposal & meetings
LH/7/2/4/250/2 Research 2 files of materials
LH/7/2/4/250/3 Loans 16 files Details of items & agreements
LH/7/2/4/250/4 Layout and captions I file
LH/7/2/4/250/5 Publications Handlist & poster
LH/7/2/4/250/6 Events 6 items Book launch & evening of music & readings
LH/7/2/4/250/7 Press 9 items Cuttings
LH/7/2/4/250/8 Images Slides & photocopies of items on display
The exhibition tells of the story of the relationship between Burne-Jones and May Gaskell. For the last six years of his life, they wrote several times a day, expressing a passionate devotion to one another. At the same time, Burne Jones befriended May's father and became a favourite of of her children and painted May's eldest child Amy. The exhibition co-incides with the publication of a book on the subject by Josceline Dimbleby, May's great granddaughter. Examples of letters, drawings and paintings that Burne-Jones presented to May and the family, many of which have never been exhibited before were on show. |