John Ruskin letter to John Henry Le Keux, between 1855-1856?
- Call Number:
- MSS 37
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Title(s):
- John Ruskin letter to John Henry Le Keux
- Date:
- between 1855-1856?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- volume 1, page 51-53
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The collection is open without restriction.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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 gives Le Keux instructions to make a "delicate bite" over the tower and bushes of a certain plate [probably Plate 25 in Modern Painters IV discussed in letters on p. 43-49]. He also asks Le Keux to make alterations so that a pillar in the same plate comes up "as black as velvet," instructing Le Keux to therefore "let the [etching] acid hiss again." Ruskin instructs Le Keux to create ten proofs without figures and then add in the figures "1, 2, 3 -7," making sure that "1 & 3 are at the same height and equidistant" from the plate margin. Ruskin asks Le Keux to then "report" the plate to Smith and Elder "as ready." Ruskin ends by saying that he has sent a plate to guard another and that he is not sure whether the guarding plate has anything on it. Ruskin instructs that, if it does not, Le Keux should put an etching ground on it.
- Physical Description:
- 3 pages : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 11 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence , Photographs, Albumen prints, and Drawings (visual works)
- Subject Terms:
- EngraversEngravingIllustration of booksRuskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern paintersRuskin, John, 1819-1900. Oxford Museum
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
- Finding Aid Title:
- John Ruskin letters to John Henry Le Keux
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11772.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449685
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449685?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1