BIB_ID
310014
Accession number
MA 3881.44
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1864 May 14].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 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
Telling him that now is not a good time to visit and would like him to wait until "I shall have got some flowers out and some strawberries, ripe, I hope, and some Jones's [Edward Burne-Jones] sketches framed; concluding that "you must learn to paint like Titian."
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