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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 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:
"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:
Art
Art appreciation
Bible
Collectors and collecting
Conservation and restoration
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Photography
Quotations
Rhetoric
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, 1821-1893
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Durham, Joseph, 1814-1877
Griffith, Thomas, active 1831-1869
Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894
Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915
Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Inchbold, John William, 1830-1888
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Old Water-Colour Society (London, England)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Ramsden, John William
Richmond, Thomas, 1802-1874
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Siddall, Elizabeth
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
White, 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