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Call Number:
MSS 37
Holdings:
[Request]
Title(s):
Henry Acland letter to John Ruskin [?]
Date:
March 1859
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
volume 1, page 157-160
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open without restriction.
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:
Acland thanks Ruskin [?] for his "beautiful vignette." He tells him that he thinks that they should make few additions. Acland asks him to compare the section of his sketch of the column frontispiece vignette labelled "A" with its photograph asking "is not the dark stone above too much arched in the engraving[?]" Acland requests that he ascertains from Messrs. Smith and Elder the particulars of [...] "striking off" and the size of the page.
Physical Description:
4 pages : autograph letter, signed ; 19 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence , Photographs, Albumen prints, and Drawings (visual works)
Subject Terms:
Engravers
Engraving
Illustration of books
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Oxford Museum
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900
Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Turner, 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/3449723
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449723?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1