Note 37 to Chapter 6 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.
In "Recollections of Berlin," Eliot mentions Kaulbach's frescoes in the Neues Museum of the Deutsche Sage, The Destruction of the Tower of Babel, Homer and the Greeks, and The Destruction of Jerusalem; his cartoons for the Neues Museum frescoes of the Deutsche Sage, the figures of Architecture, Sculpture, History, and The Battle of the Huns; and his illustrations of Shakespeare. She also saw Cornelius's Christ in Limbo (1843) and cartoons for the Royal Mausoleum. At Munich in 1858 she saw Kaulbach's frescoes in the Neue Pinakothek, his easel-painting of The Destruction of Jerusalem, his illustrations of Reineke Fuchs, and Cornelius's frescoes in the Glyptothek and Ludwigskirche. She disliked Cornelius's work, and once quoted a parody of it by the French critic, Edmond About; see "Belles Lettres," Westminster Review, 65 (1856), 308-09. 38 See Vaughan, "The German Manner in English Art," pp. 18, 70, 115. G. H. Lewes, The Life and Works of Goethe (London: D. Nutt, 1855),11, 216-20.
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