Photography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1864 June 28
Item — Box 1, Folder: 64.86
Call Number: MSS 47
Scope and Contents:
Rossetti asks Heaton to visit him on Friday at 4 pm or after, or on Saturday at 12 noon or 1 pm to see her Sir Galahad drawing. He reasserts the price of the piece as 100 guineas and asks Heaton if he could have £55 when she visits as he is "obliged to go out of town on Saturday for a day of two, to avoid a summons on the Grand Jury (!)" Rossetti says his Joan of Arc is nearly complete and hopes that Heaton will enjoy the ...
Dates:
1864 June 28
John Frederick Lewis letter to William Vokins, 1863 December 25
Item — Box 1, Folder: 1
Call Number: MSS 53
Scope and Contents:
"Xmas Day 1863. My dear Vokins, Poor Thackeray has gone! I suppose you saw this morning an account of his death in the "Times". Poor fellow. What a loss! & so young too. At one time I knew him well. Your note gratified me much this morning & when I opened & saw the Photograph, I thought you had put your real self in - & had got somebody to seal you up! Thanks for it - it is very like [...] God knows yet what I shall get by April - I will do my best, if my health holds out -...
Dates:
1863 December 25
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 May 9
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.9
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin apologizes that he will not be able to meet Heaton the following morning and says that she may see the pictures and sketches she is interested in if she visits his house in the afternoon instead. Ruskin professes his dismay that he has not been able to talk much with Heaton recently but encourages her to ask him "anything and everything.". Ruskin states that his address for the foreseeable future will be the Calverley Hotel, Tunbridge Wells. Ruskin has bought Heaton another photograph...
Dates:
1855 May 9
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 May 11
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.10
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
"I hope to call tomorrow about 3 o'clock & to bring calotypes with me … I had your kind note -- but my endeavours were notwithstanding this ... vain, for the present chiefly because we cannot get the permanence of photography ascertained. I will tell you more tomorrow." [Date given by postmark: 11 May 1855]
Dates:
1855 May 11
John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1855 May 19?
Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 39002106121412], Folder: H.11
Call Number: MSS 46
Scope and Contents:
Ruskin is writing from his bed. He advises Heaton to acquire a Turner, remarking that Turner's Parnassus and Castle St Angelo is better than his Berne, with the Parnassus the "finest." Ruskin advises Heaton to protect the Parnassus from light. He suggests she commissions work from both John William Inchbold and Arthur Hughes. He admits he has not...
Dates:
1855 May 19?
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