Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 December 13
- Call Number:
- MSS 46
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Ruskin, John, 1819–1900
- Title(s):
- John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton
- Date:
- 1856 December 13
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder H.51
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, The material passed from Ellen Heaton to her nephew John Heaton, and subsequently to his brother Beresford Heaton, then to Katherine Ogilvy Heaton, and finally to Elizabeth Maud Sackville Robertson. Sold at auction, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 16, 1969 (see catalog entry no. 117).
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Ruskin tells Heaton that he has been enjoying Turner's <title>Aldborough</title> at a viewing by Thomas Richmond. He remarks: "it is most beautiful and it gives [him] intense pleasure to have it a little while by [him]." Ruskin gives Heaton the dates for her vignettes (1832 and 1833), stating that the drawings date from about a year earlier. Ruskin comments that they "are characteristic of Turners late middle period when everybody was already mocking & laughing at him." He says that Turner's "blazing" <title>Ulysses & Polyphemus</title> was exhibited in the Royal Academy in 1829. In a postscript, Ruskin claims he can't quite pinpoint the weakness in Heaton's writing but that if she reads Bunyan, Bacon and Helps, she will "feel it." He agrees to mark some passages for her. He admits that he has been so dazzled by Elizabeth Browning's work, he doesn't "feel able to describe or say anything, myself.".
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 page) : autograph letter signed ; 32 x 21 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyRhetoricTurner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Aldborough, SuffolkTurner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851. Ulysses deriding Polyphemus
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Richmond, Thomas, 1802-1874Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
- Finding Aid Title:
- John Ruskin Letters to Ellen Heaton
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5850.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362725
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362725?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1