BIB_ID
309982
Accession number
MA 3881.41
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1861 Feb. 5].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 21.6 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
Clarifying that he did not intend that Watts should not aim for all of Titian's qualities, "but not all at once;" explaining that "Titian was born....with every conceivable human advantage and probably before he was 12 years old, knew perfectly all that could be done with oil paint. We are under every conceivable human disadvantage and we must be content to go slowly--if you try at present to get all Titian's qualities you will assuredly get none;" continuing to say that "you have many things to discover--which they learned with their Alphabet--many things to cure yourself of which their masters never allowed them to fall into the habit of."
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