Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882, Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton, 1856 November 28?
- Call Number:
- MSS 47
- Holdings:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
- Creator:
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828–1882
- Title(s):
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti letter to Ellen Heaton
- Date:
- 1856 November 28?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 56.52
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, The material passed from Ellen Heaton to her nephew John Heaton, and subsequently to his brother Beresford Heaton, then to Katherine Ogilvy Heaton, and finally to Elizabeth Maud Sackville Robertson. Sold at auction, Christie, Manson & Woods, July 16, 1969 (see catalog entry no. 117).
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
- Scope and Content:
- Rossetti tells Heaton that the subjects he is working on for inclusion in a new work by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, are <title>The Palace of Art</title>, <title>Sir Galahad</title>, <title>The Lady of Shalott</title>, <title>Mariana in the South</title> and possibly the <title>Vision of Sin.</title> He describes the drawing of the <title>Palace of Art</title> as being inspired by Tennyson's lines about St. Cecily and says it was commissioned as a watercolor. Rossetti says that if he does not find the repetition too unpleasant, he will produce a duplicate of the work for Heaton but only after he has finished his present work. Rossetti urges Heaton to acquire works by Ford Madox Brown, saying that he has only a few small works left. Rossetti describes Madox Brown's <title>Our Lady of Good Children,</title> a chalk drawing from <title>Beauty and the Beast</title> and a drawing of the <title>Virgin Mary</title>. He provides Heaton with Madox Brown's address and assures Heaton that Brown's work will only increase in value now that "the tide of justice is at last beginning to set in toward [Madox Brown]." Rossetti notes that Madox Brown's <title>Christ Washing Peter's Feet</title> received the Liverpool prize. Rossetti goes on to praise Arthur Hughes, expressing his disappointment that neither he, nor Madox Brown, have been included in the Tennyson work. Rossetti thanks Heaton for her enquiry after the health of Elizabeth Siddall, who is currently in Bath. He states that he would like it if Siddall went to a warmer region for the winter. Rossetti hopes that Siddall and Heaton will one day meet as Siddall "could have no kinder or better friend." Rossetti praises Elizabeth Barrett Browning's <title>Aurora Leigh</title> as "almost beyond anything for exhaustless poetic resource" and as possessing the potential to reveal social truths as did Tennyson's <title>Maud.</title> Rossetti expresses his happiness in hearing that Barrett Browning is in better health.
- Additional Notes:
- With envelope. Addressed from 14 Chatham Place. Date from Fredeman.
- Physical Description:
- 2 folded sheets (4 pages each) : autograph letter signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence
- Subject Terms:
- ArtArt appreciationCollectors and collectingPaintersPainting, BritishPhotography
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861Heaton, Ellen, 1816-1894Hughes, Arthur, 1832-1915Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882Siddall, ElizabethTennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
- Finding Aid Title:
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti Letters to Ellen Heaton
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/5859.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369909
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2369909?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1