Corrections to “The Cook collection”

Most alarming of the errors in the article, of which there are only a few, is the inversion by the printer of figure 14, the presentation model for the seal of Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici, by Lautizio da Perugia, c. 1513 (private collection). It is shown correctly at left.

Another error occurs in the caption of figure 5. This should read: Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey. c. 1902. Photograph. (Richmond Local Studies Library).

Finally, a copy of the original letter from Roger Fry to Herbert Cook kindly provided by Brenda, Lady Cook, showed that the transcription printed in appendix 2 contained some minor errors. A corrected version follows:

Ivy Holt, Dorking
7 Feb. 1901

My dear Cook,

As I don't wish to fire at you from behind a hedge, I ought to let you know that I penned the savage attack on your Giorgione in the Athenaeum of last week. I hope I have put my views temperately and said how much I admire your attitude. I do sincerely wish I could agree more with you but alas I can't. I went to see the Beaumont picture [the Allendale Nativity] which is lovely, but just look at the way it is built up of isolated details never seen as a whole though pulled together at the end, a very different method to that of Giorgione even in his earliest & most naive work. I have not I admit tackled the Giorgione-Titian problem which I consider almost beyond the wit of man, but am rather concerned to weed out all the second rates who imitated their common manner.

I have for my sins and for a small quantity of miserable pay undertaken to write for a guidebook a history of Italian art, and wish you would take pity on me & lend me your notice of the Lombard school. If possible I should like your unadulterated work & not the bowdlerization of Strong & Co. I will take good care of it & let you have it back in a few days. Have you seen Mrs Ady's Florentine Painting. The beginning of it is a resume of my lectures which she borrowed because she was so much interested. She has copied mistakes of mine with delightful inadvertency. I hope I shan't get brain-picky in the brain like a certain person [possibly Berenson] but it is a little amazing & now she actually says I got so much from her, how does not appear.

I hope you are both well & flourishing: we continue to await the great event which still delays annoyingly. Yrs. Ever Roger E. Fry

P.S. The 'Pilot' wanted me to review the Giorgione too but I didn't like to have two shots at you, so have got one A. M. Daniel who is learned & thorough to do it.

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