Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, John Ruskin letter to Ellen Heaton, 1862 late November?
- 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:
- 1862 late November?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Letters from John Ruskin to Ellen Heaton
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder H.112
- 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's feeling better but still unable to talk to anyone. He tells Heaton he has her Hughes work (<title>That was a Piedmontese</title>) and praises the work as "exquisitely beautiful in the face of the woman." Ruskin vows to never criticize work by a living man but goes on to say that Hughes has not been true to Elizabeth Barret Browning's poem <title>A Court Lady</title> by failing to make the subject's dress grand enough. Ruskin admonishes Heaton for being "absurd to think [she] knew better about literature or anything else than Rossetti." Ruskin says he will "relieve" Heaton of her Jones work and suggests that he will buy her a "pretty" picture of Jones's which the artist produced to raise money for "Manchester starving people." Ruskin enquires whether Turner's <title>Ehrenbreitstein</title> is at the home of Thomas Richmond and admits he has "a plan about it -- can't tell [Heaton] to day.". [Date provided by Surtees: Probably latter half of November 1862]
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (2 pages) : autograph letter signed ; 32 x 20 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingConservation and restorationHughes, Arthur, 1832-1915. That was a PiedmontesePaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPhotographyRhetoric
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915Ruskin, 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/2362761
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2362761?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1