Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, Lines of verse from Psalms and Proverbs, 1850 July 18
- Call Number:
- MSS 46
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
- Title(s):
- Lines of verse from Psalms and Proverbs
- Date:
- 1850 July 18
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Miscellaneous
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder add.1
- 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:
- "The sea is His – and He made it, and His hands prepared the dry Land./(By His Knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.)/Oh come, let us worship & bow down and kneel before the Lord our maker." (Psalms 95:5-6; Proverbs 3:20.) Signed: "John Ruskin, July 18th, 1850."
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (1 page) ; 25 x 20 cm, folded to 13 x 20 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationBibleCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyQuotationsRhetoric
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Art Treasures Exhibition ($d: 1857 $c: Manchester, England)Bolton Abbey (Bolton Abbey, England)Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321Durham, Joseph, 1814-1877Griffith, Thomas, active 1831-1869Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888Leeds Philosophical and Literary SocietyOld Water-Colour Society (London, England)Pre-Raphaelite BrotherhoodRamsden, John WilliamRichmond, Thomas, 1802-1874Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Siddall, ElizabethTurner, 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/2362763
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362763?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1