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Call Number:
MSS 47
Creator:
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Title(s):
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton
Date:
1864 October 28
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 64.150
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 will send Heaton's <title>Sir Galahad</title> today. He asks Heaton not to tell anyone the price of the <title>Joan of Arc</title> as "it would have been considerably higher had it been sold when finished instead of by commission.". Rossetti states that the letter Heaton mentioned in a previous letter is a Whistler and the one signed "Ned" is a Jones and mentions that he had asked Christina Rossetti to describe them to Heaton. He ends: "Lady Ashburton has not gone fasting through the fact of my artistic provender here being all bespoke. She has given me several commissions, one being a small Joan of Arc."
Additional Notes:
With envelope. Letterhead: 16 Cheyne Walk.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 19 x 23 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence
Subject Terms:
Art
Art appreciation
Collectors and collecting
Painters
Painting, British
Photography
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882. Joan of Arc
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Ashburton, Louisa, Lady, 1827-1903
Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882
Finding Aid Title:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369942
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369942?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1