BIB_ID
306195
Accession number
MA 382.57
Creator
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
Display Date
1864 Aug. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 18.4 cm
Notes
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.
Written on his embossed monogram letterhead from 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Written on his embossed monogram letterhead from 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Sending his love to Henrietta and Maggie; updating her on a current project (Venus Veticordia), the new chicks hatched from the peahen, Chapman's "cold-water business" at Malvern, and the illness of Chapman's sister Mrs. Potter; describing a review of Christina "in this month's Fraser"; indicating that he will see William's chameleons tomorrow and discussing flowers for his picture; mentioning a visit from a friend of Mr. Mitchell ("who is to have the Venus"); asking if she's heard "of a Venetian (I think), named something like Gallera" and indicating that his widow recently paid him a visit and said that he had known his father.
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