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Call Number:
MSS 5
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
Title(s):
Letter to Thomas Goff Lupton
Date:
1871 Apr [early]
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series I: Dated letters
Part of Collection:
1, folder 47
Provenance:
Paul Mellon Collection.
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:
Stationery labeled "Broadlands, Romsey," although preserved with a mismatched envelope stamped "Tunbridge Wells." Envelope also dated May 1855. A rather friendly and not overly serious letter from Ruskin, who writes that he was going to come see Lupton, but doesn't know what his plans will be. He asks what Lupton's plans for being at home will be during the rest of the week (10-16 April 1871). He writes about wanting one of Lupton's "old drawing[s]" of "pigs and wheelbarrow." He remarks that he worries he will have to pay "a year's income to get it." Ruskin also writes that he is "more a fool than ever--and you know how much that is saying." Overall, the letter is warm and fairly jovial, very different in tone from Ruskin's professional communications.
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
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/22.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3234
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3234?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1