BIB_ID
310027
Accession number
MA 3881.49
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1873 Feb. 13].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item ( 4 p.) ; 17.7 cm + envelope
Notes
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.
Written from the Bull Hotel, Piccadilly, in London on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston."
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.
Written from the Bull Hotel, Piccadilly, in London on stationery embossed "Brantwood, / Coniston."
Provenance
Lot 287 in an unidentified sale (14 March 1979); gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Expressing his displeasure with the work of some of his peers; criticizing Jones [Burne-Jones], who "with all his power paints still as weakly as a woman;" criticizing him for being "paralyzed for years by your love of the Greek style--you never made an entirely honest, complete, unaffected study of anything;" considering his own position in the world of art and art history.
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