Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 November 24
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 55.57
Call Number: MSS 47
Scope and Contents:
Rossetti explains that he has been in Paris for the past ten days and so only just received Heaton's latest letter. Rossetti has heard from Ruskin that Heaton would prefer keeping the drawing from the Purgatorio of Rachel and Leah, or Matilda and Beatrice. Rossetti remarks that he has given Matilda and Beatrice the actions of Rachel and Leah and describes the two figures as "of an entirely Oriental character, as the real Rachel and Leah...
Dates:
1855 November 24
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1861 early June
Item — Box: 1, Folder: H.96
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin has sent Heaton four duplications of the signatures from letters he has sent to his father (these are the four sheets additional to the primary, folded letter). Ruskin describes a "leaf drawing" (of Alpine rose leaves) which contains qualities not found in the work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, "namely lusciousness and (not terrific) gloom" which Ruskin describes as more "Correggioesque than most modern work." Ruskin complains that he could have written...
Dates:
1861 early June
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 47
Overview:
The collection comprises 57 letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton written from 1855 to 1875 (the bulk from 1855 to 1864). The letters primarily pertain to works by Rossetti, including a number of his works commissioned by Heaton. Works referenced include: Beata Beatrix, Beloved, Bethlehem Gate, Dante’s dream at the time of the death of Beatrice, Dante's...
Dates:
1855-1875
John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 46
Overview:
The collection comprises letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, written from 1855 to 1864.
Dates:
1850-1864, bulk 1855-1864
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection
Call Number: MSS 53
Overview:
The collection comprises 15 letters from Thomas Woolner to John Frederick Lewis, written between 1874 and 1876. It also includes 5 letters from Woolner to Lewis’s wife, Marian Harper, one letter from Lewis to dealer William Vokins, and several letters from Woolner’s wife and daughter. The letters primarily concern Lewis’s declining health—he died several months after the last letter in the collection—Woolner’s admiration for Lewis’s painting, updates on the politics of the Royal Academy and...
Dates:
1863-1914, bulk 1874-1876