BIB_ID
305720
Accession number
MA 382.14
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1879 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postage and postmarks, addressed to "Edmund Bates Esq., 1 Upper Fountaine Street, Leeds."
Location taken from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Location taken from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to various recipients. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Commenting on the possible identification of Blake in a portrait and indicating that according to Shields, "the man's portrait is Blake & no other"; thanking him for a photo [of a painting] that "cannot be by Botticelli" and seems "to have some strong affinities with the School of Jean de Mabuse"; recommending some lines of Henry Taylor's poetry as a motto for "The Hesterna Rosa" and describing the scene; discussing three works that he'd like to sell.
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