BIRKENHEAD, Sheila

ILLUSTRIOUS FRIENDS; The story of Joseph Severn and his son Arthur

NY: Reynal, (1965). 8vo, pp. 393. Bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Some of the illustration leaves trimmed a little too close to the pictures and print, o/w a nice copy in scuffed dj. Item #35881

Severn was the young artist who traveled with Keats to Rome; the son Arthur, also an artist, married the cousin and ward of John Ruskin and, with his wife, took care of the latter during his psychotic episodes and in his old age.

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