Death of Chatterton: It's in the Details << help?

[ellen_kushner]

Delia & I just got back from a last-minute 2-day mini-vacation to D.C. to catch the Pre-Raphaelite Exhibit that's visiting the National Gallery from the Tate in London.*  She wrote about it here at delicious length

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[ashlyme]

Ellen, was there any Simeon Solomon exhibited at all? He's the well-kept secret of the Brotherhood.

Delia writes well about the exhibition (and I hope the surgery comes soon for her). I'm lucky enough to live in a city with a small but good Pre-Raphaelite collection; Burne-Jones was born on the street where I tend to favour drinking.

[ellen_kushner]

No Simeon, alas - but he's in the Catalogue. I swear I saw some of him a few years ago, in a show about something completely different - can picture the room, but not what country it was in . . . pathetic, I know.

Birmingham, eh? ;)

Photo to Facebook

[anonymous]

Hi, Ellen. I posted the picture to Facebook for you and messaged you directions on how to put it up as your cover photo. Ruth W

Re: Photo to Facebook

[ellen_kushner]

Got it, thanks, Ruth!

[csecooney]

I LOVE The Death of Thomas Chatterton! Patty introduced me to that painting. She'd filled a whole cork board of images as she was writing her first draft of "There is No Lovely End," her Sarah Winchester ghost novel, and that was dead center. So beautiful! And, yes, now that I look at it through an Ellen-filter, so VERY Riverside!

[kingsgrave]

The Death of Chatterton has been a favorite of mine since I was 13, and fumblingly trying to write formal verse around the image. In retrospect, I'm glad as hell that I realized how impossible that was before I tried to show the work to anyone, but you've got me all fluttery with the need to pull a daytrip by train from upstate to DC in time to go and SEE that collection whilst I still can!

So... Thanks for that!

[ellen_kushner]

Oh, yes, you must! It's a bit of a haul - but shorter than a trip to London (where about 70% of what's there lives - but differently displayed).

[laughingmagpie]

Best of luck to you and Delia on the impending long trek.
The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.

Obviously I should be following your twitter if you post LofA quotes ;)

[ellen_kushner]

And you're the first one to field & return that one!

Clearly you should.