George Eliot visits Alfred Morrison's collection

Hugh Witemeyer, Professor of English, University of New Mexico

Note 11 to Chapter 2 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.

Letters, 1, 347 and Vl, 162. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, Morrison specialized in autographs, Persian carpets, Chinese porcelain, Greek gems and gold work, miniatures, cameos, inlaid metals, and enameled glass. He also had an extensive collection of engravings, and a "small but choice" collection of paintings. On their second visit, the Leweses noted a watercolor of a bird's wing by Albrecht Durer.

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