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Auction archive: Lot number 226

Millais, J.E. Two autograph letters

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$314 - US$471
Price realised:
£475
ca. US$746
Auction archive: Lot number 226

Millais, J.E. Two autograph letters

Estimate
£200 - £300
ca. US$314 - US$471
Price realised:
£475
ca. US$746
Beschreibung:

Millais, J.E. Two autograph letters signed, one to [John] Ruskin, about coming to stay with him, commenting on his not knowing how to employ himself since his pictures have gone to the Royal Academy, and sending kind greetings to Mrs Ruskin; the other to Mrs Ford, declining a visit because of ill health (7 March 1864) and with an envelope with four sketches of animals by the young John Millais (1878), together with a letter by Effie Millais to Mrs Ford, describing a journey to Perth and the calamity of a house fire ("at 3am the Maid rushed into our room saying the house was on fire.... of that fine House nothing remained but the Walls & Campanila. Sir E. saved his Pictures. The servants lost everything", 13 pages in all, and envelope, 8vo., laid down, chiefly undated

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
29 Aug 2012
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
Beschreibung:

Millais, J.E. Two autograph letters signed, one to [John] Ruskin, about coming to stay with him, commenting on his not knowing how to employ himself since his pictures have gone to the Royal Academy, and sending kind greetings to Mrs Ruskin; the other to Mrs Ford, declining a visit because of ill health (7 March 1864) and with an envelope with four sketches of animals by the young John Millais (1878), together with a letter by Effie Millais to Mrs Ford, describing a journey to Perth and the calamity of a house fire ("at 3am the Maid rushed into our room saying the house was on fire.... of that fine House nothing remained but the Walls & Campanila. Sir E. saved his Pictures. The servants lost everything", 13 pages in all, and envelope, 8vo., laid down, chiefly undated

Auction archive: Lot number 226
Auction:
Datum:
29 Aug 2012
Auction house:
Lyon & Turnbull
33 Broughton Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3RR
United Kingdom
info@lyonandturnbull.com
+44 (0)131 5578844
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