Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1857 May
- Call Number:
- MSS 46
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
- Title(s):
- John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton
- Date:
- 1857 May
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder H.74
- 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 UndeterminedThe 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 am not going to let you charge me with inconstancy to some purpose. I don't like the <title>St Angelo</title>, now I have it by me. -- I think nature of some sort is pleasanter though there is magnificent work in the <title>St Angelo</title>. I would offer the <title>St Angelo</title> and <title>Lochmaben</title> to White, if I were you -- for the two vignettes of trees he has had by him so long. Both those are pretty and different from what you have. Write to R. [Rossetti] about <title>St John</title> whenever you like: -- it ought to have been done long ago" In a postscript: "Just call on White. He knows the vignettes, ask him if he'll change. Don't hear of any advance in value but if you could take something else, it might facilitate matters." [Date provided by Surtees: May 1857]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; 33 x 21 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyRhetoricTurner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Castle of St Angelo
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851White, David Thomas
- 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/2362747
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362747?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1