BIB_ID
305349
Accession number
MA 381.1
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
[1854 Mar. 3-4].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Dated "Midnight 12 1/2 (Friday Saturday" by Rossetti. Detailed dating from Fredeman.
Part of a large collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to William Allingham. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Rossetti was at this time painting outdoors on "Found" with Arthur Hughes in Kentish Town.--Cf. Fredeman, letter 54.20, n. 1.
Written from Chatham Place.
Part of a large collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti primarily to William Allingham. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Rossetti was at this time painting outdoors on "Found" with Arthur Hughes in Kentish Town.--Cf. Fredeman, letter 54.20, n. 1.
Written from Chatham Place.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Calling himself a "beast" for not having written and apologizing that he is "absolutely prevented from being here just now in the daytime -- as I am painting elsewhere;" suggesting that Allingham call the following evening after eight.
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