BIB_ID
309766
Accession number
MA 3881.36
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1859 Apr. 19].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Location and date of writing based on postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Francis H. Butler and G. F. Watts. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Francis H. Butler and G. F. Watts. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Lot 287 in an unidentified sale (14 March 1979); gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Telling him that he has a right to criticize figure drawing even though he has a "want of knowledge of bones;" telling him that though he "should not venture to decide whether Stanfield or Huggins painted a ship accurately, but should fearlessly say that a bit of entirely wrong ship by Turner was worth a whole fleet painted by either;" asserting that he thinks "Flaxman's Dante simply damnable-- his Homer only less ridiculous."
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