Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 November 29
- Call Number:
- MSS 46
- Creator:
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
- Title(s):
- John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton
- Date:
- 1855 November 29
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder H.26
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, The material passed from Ellen Heaton to her nephew John Heaton, and subsequently to his brother Beresford Heaton, then to Katherine Ogilvy Heaton, and finally to Elizabeth Maud Sackville Robertson. Sold at auction, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 16, 1969 (see catalog entry no. 117).
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Ruskin tells Heaton he received the Bolton Abbey photograph and rocks safely. Ruskin asks Heaton if she could arrange to have another photograph taken of the area, at the back of the river. Ruskin tells Heaton that the chapter on Leah and Rachel he referred to in his previous letter relates to Dante's, not Rossetti's, work. In a postscript, Ruskin asks Heaton to pass on his admiration to J. W. Ramsden, the photographer of the Bolton Abbey scene.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyRhetoric
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Bolton Abbey (Bolton Abbey, England)Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Ramsden, John WilliamRuskin, John, 1819-1900
- Finding Aid Title:
- John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5850.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362700
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362700?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1