BIB_ID
311944
Accession number
MA 7788.49
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
undated.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Panshangar, built in Hertfordshire in 1720, was the residence of Earl Cowper. It was demolished in 1954.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper.
Part of a collection of letters primarily from John Ruskin and Joan Severn to Dr. and Mrs. Simon. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Declining her invitation to visit saying that the Patmores are coming today and he may be receiving Kingsley as well; asking if she might come to him; saying that he is "very much pleased with my own pictures after being among those Old Masters at Panshangar--though there's some notion of pleasantness in breakfasting under two Raphaels and a Paul Veronese--but I can breakfast off my pictures which is better."
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