Note 3 to Chapter 1 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Henry James, The Painter's Eye, ed. John L. Sweeney (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956), p. 90, and The Letters of Aubrey Beardsley, ed. Henry Maas, J. L. Duncan, and W. G. Good (London: Cassell, 1970), p. 61, quoted by John Dixon Hunt, "'Story Painters and Picture Writers': Tennyson's Idylls and Victorian Painting," in Tennyson, ed. D. J. Palmer (Athens: Ohio University Pressy 1973), p. 180.
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