Summer Event July 2008
The London Adventure
EDWARD BURNE-JONES
‘Magnificent Dreamer’ was presented by Antony Clayton on Saturday 26th July, 2008.
“I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be – in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire – and the forms divinely beautiful.”
A group of us attended the summer event this year on a warm, muggy day. We met at the entrance to Kensington Central Library in Hornton Street, W8, opposite the Town Hall. Thanks to Antony Clayton’s erudite presentation the weather didn’t preoccupy us although I couldn’t help wondering how all those wan, women with luxuriante hair, in voluminous attire managed to endure the heat. Anthony took us on a walk stopping at places where Burne Jones had lived or had been a visitor and we visited Melbury Road where once there was a thriving artists’ colony. The walk concluded at the site of Burne-Jones’s house and studio the Grange. The tour lasted approximately two hours and we ended with tea, cakes and relaxed conversation in a local tea shop. Everyone enjoyed the afternoon.
Antony Clayton is the author of ‘Subterranean City’, ‘London’s Coffee Houses’, ‘Decadent London’ and ‘The Folklore of London’.
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