BIB_ID
310013
Accession number
MA 3881.43
Creator
Bowman, William, Sir, 1816-1892.
Display Date
1863 Nov. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 15.2 cm + envelope
Notes
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.
This letter was evidently forwarded by Watts to an unknown recipient and enclosed in an envelope from Ruskin addressed to Watts; a note on the envelope of Ruskin's letter to Watts reads: "I send you Bowman's letter and one from Ruskin. Please do not lose them as they are both interesting." The Ruskin letter mentioned in this note is a letter from Ruskin to Watts, undated but with a postmark of Nov. 18, 1863 (MA 3881.42).
Written on stationery embossed "North End, / Hampstead / N.W."
This letter was evidently forwarded by Watts to an unknown recipient and enclosed in an envelope from Ruskin addressed to Watts; a note on the envelope of Ruskin's letter to Watts reads: "I send you Bowman's letter and one from Ruskin. Please do not lose them as they are both interesting." The Ruskin letter mentioned in this note is a letter from Ruskin to Watts, undated but with a postmark of Nov. 18, 1863 (MA 3881.42).
Written on stationery embossed "North End, / Hampstead / N.W."
Provenance
Lot 287 in an unidentified sale (14 March 1979); gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Expressing delight that "the head of the great poet" [Tennyson] will soon be completed; discussing the size of the finished portrait.
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