BIB_ID
188247
Accession number
MA 14323
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, sender.
Display Date
Coniston, England, 1880 February 27
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery reading: Brantwood, / Coniston, Lancashire.
Addressed to "Editor of the Magazine of Art" above letterhead.
Ruskin wrote the year as 1879 rather than 1880. The letter was certainly written in February 1880, as the article in the Magazine of Art that he is responding to was not published until December 1879, and he describes the February 1880 issue of Fors Clavigera as "now in the press." This was letter 88 of Fors Clavigera, which refers appreciatively to the Magazine of Art article in a note (volume 39, p. 396n in Ruskin's Works).
The Magazine of Art article that Ruskin refers to is Edward Bradbury, "A Visit to Ruskin's Museum," Magazine of Art, December 1879.
Ruskin refers to a drawing in the collection of the St. George's Museum by Arthur Severn, the husband of Ruskin's cousin Joan. The drawing is titled Coblenz (Ehrenbreitstein), after J.M.W. Turner.
Addressed to "Editor of the Magazine of Art" above letterhead.
Ruskin wrote the year as 1879 rather than 1880. The letter was certainly written in February 1880, as the article in the Magazine of Art that he is responding to was not published until December 1879, and he describes the February 1880 issue of Fors Clavigera as "now in the press." This was letter 88 of Fors Clavigera, which refers appreciatively to the Magazine of Art article in a note (volume 39, p. 396n in Ruskin's Works).
The Magazine of Art article that Ruskin refers to is Edward Bradbury, "A Visit to Ruskin's Museum," Magazine of Art, December 1879.
Ruskin refers to a drawing in the collection of the St. George's Museum by Arthur Severn, the husband of Ruskin's cousin Joan. The drawing is titled Coblenz (Ehrenbreitstein), after J.M.W. Turner.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Ruskin says that he had not seen, until that day, the kindly and carefully detailed notice of the St. George's museum at Sheffield [in the Magazine of Art]. The article may be made as complete as it is accurate if the editor will permit Ruskin to state that the little room is only the sample of what he hopes to do on a scale affording sitting and standing room together with some quietude and provision for desk and shelf, with reference volumes of useful books, for the more steady students. Some account of these matters will be found at the end of the number of Fors Clavigera now in the press [Letter 88], and which [George] Allen will be able to supply early in March, from his country shop at Orpington. Ruskin would like to ask the Magazine's readers to insert, with careful penmanship, in the 26th line from the bottom of the second column, the word "not" before "unworthy." The omission of this negative, evidently a printers' slip, the more regrettable because [Arthur] Severn's brilliant drawing [his copy of one of Turner's watercolors of Coblenz] is felt by most of the visitors to be one of the pleasantest and most interesting possessions of the museum.
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