Autograph letter signed : London, to George Frederick Watts, 1858 Oct. 18.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to George Frederick Watts, 1858 Oct. 18.

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Telling him that he is "even more culpable then you charge me with being; for I am answerable for a good deal of this fatal mediaevalism in the beginning of it--not indeed for the principle of retrogression--but for the stiffness & quaintness & intensity as opposed to classical grace & tranquility--now I am suffering for so far yielding to my own likings--I've almost got sickened of all Gothic by Rossetti's clique:--all the more that I've been having a great go with Paul Veronese.--I was six weeks at Turin working from a single picture of his--a bit here & a bit there--came to great grief of course: but I learned a great deal: more than I never learned in six weeks--or six months--before ... all the fun of these fellows [Pre-Raphaelites] goes straight into their work--one can't get them to be quiet at all--or resist a fancy if it strikes them ever so little a stroke on the bells of their soul--away they go jingle--jingle--without even caring what oclock it is;" asking when he can see him.

1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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