BIB_ID
309972
Accession number
MA 3881.38
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1860 Oct. 3].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (1p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Location and date of writing from 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
Hoping to see him tomorrow at the National Gallery and to see paintings with him at Kensington on Saturday; telling him that he has no doubt about his "power of colouring;" encouraging him to do "one thing at once and not go for feeling and colour together."
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