Cynthia Grow
Love Letters
Edited collection of love letters written by historical figures and famous lovers throughout the ages. See text for more about the work.
Acrylic and graphite on vintage book and paper, 23 x 31 cm.
John Keats to Fanny Brawne, [Wednesday 13 October 1819]
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Beauharnais, Paris, December 1795
Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Murry, Saturday night, 18 May 1917
Ninon de L'Enclos to the Marquis de Sévigné, c. 1690
Evelyn Waugh to Laura Herbert, 1936
Esther Van Homrigh to Jonathan Swift, Dublin 1720
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte, Nice 10 Germinal Year IV [1796]
Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Mounet Sully, January 1874
John Ruskin to Effie Gray, Folkestone, 30 November 1847
John Keats to Fanny Brawne, [March 1820?]
Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell, 14 February 1913
William Congreve to Arabella Hunt, [1690?]