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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889

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Dates

  • Existence: 1812-05-07 - 1889-12-12

Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet
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Found in 2 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
Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton

John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 late November

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: H.25
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents: Ruskin asks Heaton if she could arrange for a photographer to go to Bolton and take a photograph of the scene depicted in Turner's Bolton Abbey, and to collect bits of rock from the area. Ruskin praises both Arthur Hughes's painting and Robert Browning's recently published poem "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish the Arab Physician", expressing his surprise that he should agree with the Athenaeum's...
Dates: 1855 late November
Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton > Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton