BIB_ID
310040
Accession number
MA 3881.53
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1885 May 25].
Credit line
Gift of Warren R. Howell, 1983.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.5 cm + envelope
Notes
An unidentified pencil notation at the bottom of p.1 indicates that the two girls referred to in the letter were Rachel Gurney (later the Countess of Dudley) and her sister Laura, later Lady Troubridge. The girls were the granddaughters of Henry Thoby Prinsep at whose home, Little Holland House, Watts was living and painting.
Date of writing from postmarks.
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 on stationery with the location indicated in the author's hand as, " Arthur Severn's, 28. Herne Hill S E."
Date of writing from postmarks.
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 on stationery with the location indicated in the author's hand as, " Arthur Severn's, 28. Herne Hill S E."
Provenance
Lot 287 in an unidentified sale (14 March 1979); gift of Warren R. Howell in 1983.
Summary
Hoping to pay him a visit on Thursday; complimenting him on his portrait of "those two girls" adding that "I think I shall set up in my old age for a portrait painter -- Landscape is dull by itself."
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