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Call Number:
MSS 47
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Title(s):
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton
Date:
1863 May 22
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 63.58
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:
Rossetti tells Heaton he can offer Heaton a picture of Helen (since she is no longer the subject of his commission for Mr. Rose) or Beatrice. Rossetti can begin the work straight away and gives the price for the piece as 120 guineas, 50 to be paid at the commencement of the work, 35 when presented in advance of completion and 35 upon delivery. Rossetti does not doubt that he can complete it before Heaton leaves London, if he can begin work on it immediately. Rossetti says that Jeptha's daughter (as "a mere shadow") is incapable of functioning as the subject of a work "unless [it is] a dramatic one, of various figures including the incident connected with her." Rossetti muses that his treatment of this (or any other subject) should be independent from that of Tennyson's, stating that he "never illustrate[s] modern writers as a rule, though once or twice I have done so with Browning only, from especial love of him. Such mingling of contemporary ideas is like the intermarriage of the same families, sure to lead to degeneracy."
Additional Notes:
With envelope. Addressed from 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Date from Fredeman.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Art
Art appreciation
Collectors and collecting
Painters
Painting, British
Photography
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. Beata Beatrix
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894
Jephthah's daughter, (Biblical figure)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Finding Aid Title:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5859.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369919
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369919?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1