BIB_ID
311377
Accession number
MA 1940.48
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[1859] July 24.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.0 cm
Notes
Likely year of writing determined from contents of the letter and from reference to Ruskin's itinerary for his trip to the Continent from May 20 through October 1, 1859. It was the last trip to the continent with his parents. Detailed itinerary of Ruskin's trip may be found in The Works of John Ruskin, vol. 7, London: George Allen, 1905, edited by E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, p. xlvii-lv.
Part of a collection of letters from John Ruskin to Mrs. Hewitt. 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 Mrs. Hewitt. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of James P. Magill in 1958.
Summary
Telling her that "the art of Germany has made me more ill and sorrowful than I can remember being yet in my life. It is so bad that considering the applause it has received from Europe generally, I feel as if nothing more were to be said or done about art for a hundred years to come. If one were a music-master and had been told that a nation was great in music and going to hear, found that its concerts were always arranged for cats, peacock and cockatoos to take the principal parts, one would return from the investigation in the hopeless, helpless astonishment in which I find myself now respecting pictures."
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