BIB_ID
305583
Accession number
MA 381.31
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
Monday [1856 May].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 10.6 cm
Notes
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.
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
Asking him to bring Elizabeth Siddal's wood-block "of the old ballad" when he comes to town, as she wishes to paint the subject; reporting that the Royal Academy exhibition is full of Pre-Raphaelite work that year, noting that Hughes's Eve of St. Agnes "is a real success" and that the "finest thing of all" is a picture by Windus from the ballad of "Burd Helen."
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