Morris,
Romney & Co.
The Huntington Library
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Practical concerns dominated their
lives—Romney drew like Blake after hours. Morris runs an office, a
cottage industry; Rossetti is a partner, Burne-Jones shares in the labors.
Many hands make light work; what hope for art? |
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A stained-glass window of Justice wearing translucent
green mail (a sea of green with lively semicircles) and a segmented bright
sword gives answer, and another of Liberty offering
a pair of red wings to the aspirant. |
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A quintessential English group, The Leigh Family. |
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Blake drew like Romney after hours. How are we to have
Songs of Innocence without Romney’s studies of Poussin? |
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Tiffany, Greene & Greene, Louis
Sullivan—from Morris. |
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