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Call Number:
MSS 46
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Title(s):
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton
Date:
1862 late April?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder H.109
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:
"I'm so sorry -- but not even the Alpine rose drawing will be available just now for we want all we can get on the walls to replace the Turners which are to be shut up during great exhibition [the South Kensington International Exhibition] to avoid bore of various sorts -- and I can't part with any of my late sketches, which are all unfinished and good for nothing. I'm to talk nowhere -- and can talk about nothing -- but I'll try and answer any questions you have for me before I leave town -- love to Mr Richmond -- delighted to see him tomorrow." [Date provided by Surtees: Probably end of April 1862]
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
International Exhibition (1862 : London, England)
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/2362759
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362759?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1