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Call Number:
MSS 5
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Title(s):
Letter to Thomas Goff Lupton
Date:
[1855 or 1856]
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Dated letters
Part of Collection:
1, folder 23
Provenance:
Paul Mellon Collection.
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:
Ruskin writes with instructions about the biting of a particular plate, specifying that "none of it is to be darker than the etching of 'Taconay,' which is enclosed with it." The mention of Taconay, a mountain that Ruskin discusses in the third volume of Modern Painters, likely dates this letter to 1855 or 1856. Ruskin gives Lupton directions about the biting of the plate, referring to various parts of the image where different levels of lightness and darkness are needed. He requests four proofs of this plate when it is bitten.
Physical Description:
2 p. (1 folded leaf) ; 18 x 23 cm. + envelope. Written in pen and brown/black ink.
Genre:
Correspondence and Letters
Subject Terms:
Artists
Engravers
Engraving
Etchers
Etching
Illustration of books
Mezzotint engraving
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902
Haydon, Benjamin Robert, 1786-1846
Lupton, Nevil Oliver, ca. 1830-1915
Lupton, Thomas Goff, 1791-1873
Lupton, Thomas, 1821-1910
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
Finding Aid Title:
John Ruskin: Letters to Thomas Goff Lupton
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3208
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3208?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1