'Come dressed as you are': Burne-Jones' response to a dinner invitation

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (Birmingham 1833-1898 London)
'Come dressed as you are': Burne-Jones' response to a dinner invitation

signed with initials and inscribed ''Come Dressed as you are''/Dear Mrs Moscheles/Gladly, on Saturday/but really in These clothes?/yours very/truly/EBJ' and with further inscription 'E. Burne Jones' (lower left) and on paper headed 'The Grange, West Kensington, W.' (upper right)
pencil, pen and brown ink, fragmentary watermark 'Antien...'
5¼ x 3½ in. (13.3 x 8.8 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Felix Moscheles was named after his godfather, the composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809 –1847). An ardent pacifist, Moscheles was also an artist as was his wife, Margaret. They often held soireés at their home in Cadogan Gardens and mixed with the artistic circles of the day. Felix was close friends with the writer and cartoonist George du Maurier (1834 – 1896) and wrote a series of reminiscences about their friendship, In Bohemia with du Maurier, 1886.

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