BIB_ID
309771
Accession number
MA 3881.37
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1860] Saturday, Sept. 29.
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
A penciled notation at the bottom of page 1 indicates that "Ruskin was never painted by Watts."
Location and year 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.
Location and year 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.
Provenance
Lot 287 in an unidentified sale (14 March 1979); gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Expressing pleasure at hearing from him; telling him he will come and sit for him; telling him he will send him the last volume [of Modern Painters] and will add some proofs, plates and etchings that are not in the book; talking at length about Titian's methods of painting as a model for Watts; offering a critique on the technique of Watts' "group with child in the Academy;" saying he hopes to call on him and Mrs. Prinsep soon.
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