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3 June 1891 — 1 Queen Anne Street | |
Wednesday. 3rd June [1891]. A dull rainy day. I practised guitar at 12. Mme Balls came to show me Paris fashions & I ordered a tea jacket of her. Mrs Burr came to see me & sat for some time chatting. After lunch I drove out with Henry & we went to call on Mr & Mrs Burne Jones at the Grange North End Road. They live in an old fashioned house with a garden. The house, now divided in 2 as also the garden, must have been once delightful– The rooms are low & large & all shapes & some open on the lawn– B. Jones has built a studio down at the end of the lawn—but he has a smaller studio in the house. He said that in a few years he is to leave the house & it is to be pulled down & the garden built over—so all the nice old day parts of London are being destroyed! He took us up to his studio where he had nothing but his sketches for the Sleeping beauty & a design for a mosaic—the bad angels driven out of heaven. It is very fine. The good angels standing on a rim of light look down on a train of mournful figures descending “without bustle or hurry” as he described it. All round are angels on a thick gold grounding. B. Jones was most nice & full of the delight he had had in reading Henry’s “Early Adventures” & when we were leaving he begged Henry to return soon as he wanted him to choose a drawing of his to have as a souvenir. Mrs B. Jones was at home & gave us tea– She is very tiny & must have been very pretty. Dined at home– | |
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