BIB_ID
305492
Accession number
MA 381.20
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1855 May 11.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (12 p.) ; 18.1 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Thanking him for returning the manuscript (of Rossetti's Italian poetry translations) with marginal remarks, noting that he passed it to Ruskin. Discussing the attempts to salvage the engraving (for Allingham's poem "The Maids of Elfen Mere") and asking about Millais's design, hoping that it is as good as his picture at the Royal Academy and recalling that "he had an awful row with he hanging committee, who had put it above the level of the eye, but J.E.M. yelled for several hours, and threatened to resign, till they put it right." Mentioning the works of other artists on view at the Royal Academy and discussing at length Leighton's painting. Reporting that MacCracken attempted to sell his pictures at Christie's, and further discussing other artists.
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