Photography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 47
Abstract:
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, ...
Dates:
1855-1875
John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
Collection
Call Number: MSS 46
Abstract:
The collection comprises letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton, written from 1855 to 1864.
Dates:
1850-1864, bulk 1855-1864