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Call Number:
MSS 46
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Title(s):
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton
Date:
1857 January 27
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder H.60
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:
Copyright Undetermined

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:
"I despatch [sic] today by fast train, the folio with two sketches & vignettes. If you are at all disappointed at first, with the first, remember what value attaches to them as what Turner did for his own delight in his best time; All the finished drawings were more or less got up -- the subjects forced on him by public or publisher. But these two records of his evening walk on Calais sands were done for his own delight before he went to bed -- for nobody to see but himself." [Date provided by Surtees: Tuesday, (January 27th 1857)]
Physical Description:
1 sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Art
Art appreciation
Collectors and collecting
Conservation and restoration
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Photography
Rhetoric
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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/2362733
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362733?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1