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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)14
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)2
Hewison, Robert (1943-)1
Ruskin, John, 1819-19001
Tate Gallery1
Tate Gallery. Trustees1
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-18511
Warrell, Ian1
Wildman, Stephen1

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 30.08.1881

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Tuesday. Date as postmark. Re. potential publicity in the Times for the sale of DGR's painting [Dante's Dream] to the City of Liverpool, suggested by [Edward] Samu...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 23.09.1880

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Thursday. Date as postmark. Arrangments to meet if WD is feeling better. DGR reports a visit from the Ionides [re. possibly buing a painting. F.80.315n2]

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Charles Rowley Jr to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

07 Apr 1876

Letter addressed to DGR from Charles Rowley, on 'English Picture Publishing Company' headed paper. Rowley would like to publish a painting of DGR's, presumably as part of a wider programme of publicat...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 21.01.1879

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Tuesday. Date as postmark. Hopes to see WD tomorrow, expresses disappointment at not having seen him today. DGR has changed his daily routine due to lack of daylig...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 15.07.1881

Autograph letter and envelope. Date as postmark. Encloses a letter [no longer enclosed] to Mr Price, the Principal of Haileybury College re. fake paintings. The post script, which refers to the place ...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 01.07.1878

Autograph letter, and envelope with seal. Dated Monday. Date as postmark. Requests an extension to the notice on the garden lease if possible. Suggests there should be action re. the new fake DGR pain...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 03.04.1878

Autograph letter. Dated Wednesday. Encloses a letter re. value of a painting for Fry (letter no longer enclosed), comparing the price with an earlier work, the Silence. Asks the name of the current ar...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 23.09.1878

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Monday. Date as postmark. DGR would like to meet TWD to discuss correspondence from [Leonard Rowe] Valpy and [W.A.?] Turner, the latter re. the potential acquisiti...

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Frederic James Shields to Dante Gabriel Rossetti

07.07.1878

Autograph letter. Advises Rossetti not to publicise the faked DGR pictures in the press, believing that once the 'timid' picture-buying public understand that signatures can be faked all of DGR's pain...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 22.02.1877

Autograph letter and envelope on black-edged paper. Dated Thursday night. Date as postmark. DGR has asked Fry, his wife and Herkomer to visit and view the painting [Astarte Syriaca]; voices concern re...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to (Walter) Theodore Watts-Dunton

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. 03.06.1878

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated Monday night. Date as postmark. Asks TWD to contact or see him when he is back; Mrs Sumner would like to see him. Reports that another fake DGR painting is on show...

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti to John Lucas Tupper

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)

c. August 1860

Autograph letter and envelope. Dated [August 1860?] in Fredeman. In folder titled No. 2. DGR Letter begins 'I'm sorry for the delay about jacket.' DGR will return a jacket which he has painted [in ...

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