BIB_ID
311606
Accession number
MA 1940.74
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Gift of James P. Magill, 1958.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
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
Answering her questions on Pre-Raphaelitism as follows: "Does Pre-R-ism deny the ideals? No. It proposes the highest of all ideals. Does it profess to paint things as they are or as you see them? As you see them. A work [sic] important point of principle. Do such and such feelings argue deficiency of ideality or a more exacting ideal? Probably both but certainly the last. I should have said only the last were it not that I entirely share your feelings and my exacting idealism is associated with an absence of power to invent for myself. I think some people can invent a painting with whatever they like. I can't. I see nothing but what is there."
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