Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters
Subject
Subject Source: Local (YCBA-RBM)
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 mid-November?
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.22
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin apologizes for not having previously written to Heaton about Rossetti's Paolo and Francesca and tells her if she likes his Rossetti better, he will make an exchange with her as "both are exquisite examples of him." Ruskin tells her that he now has more free time, having finished his draft of what will become Modern Painters III, and that he shall read Heaton's writings. In a postscript, he admits that he doesn't care...
Dates:
1855 mid-November?
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 late November
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], 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
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 January
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.30
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin apologizes for not sending Heaton a copy of his newly published Modern Painters III but says he will pay for Heaton's order of a drawing from "the workman" (presumably the artist mentioned in his previous letter) and will autograph Heaton's copy of his book the next time she comes to town. Ruskin expresses his happiness that Heaton enjoyed the book and tells her that the "best plate" in the work is his etching of Bolton which contains...
Dates:
1856 January
John Ruskin letters to John Henry Le Keux
Collection
Call Number: MSS 37
Abstract:
This collection comprises 53 items, including 42 letters from John Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 1 letter from John James Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 7 stand-alone sketches related to Le Keux’s engraving work for Ruskin, annotated printed proofs made by Le Keux for Ruskin and 1 letter from Henry W. Acland to John Ruskin which pertains to Le Keux’s work on the frontispiece for Acland and Ruskin’s The Oxford Museum. While the majority of the items are undated, the...
Dates:
1854-1860