Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
IV - LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
Summary
Dear Watts,—I am very glad to have your letter to-night, having been downhearted lately and unable to write to my friends, yet glad of being remembered by them. I have kept a kind letter of Mrs. Prinsep's by me ever so long. It came too late to be answered before the birthday of which it told me.
I will come and sit whenever and wherever and as long as you like. I have nothing whatever to do, and don't mean to have. I hope to be at National Gallery on Tuesday [erased], Wednesday [erased, see end of note], and Thursday afternoons, two to four, not exactly working, but wondering. I entirely feel with you that there is no dodge in Titian. It is simply right doing with a care and dexterity alike unpractised among us nowadays. It is drawing with paint as tenderly as you do with chalk.… I suspect that Titian depended on states and times in colouring more than we do; that he left such and such colours for such and such times always before retouching, and so on; but this you would not call dodge—would you?—but merely perfect knowledge of means. It struck me in looking at your group with child in the Academy that you depended too much on blending and too little on handling colour; that you were not simple enough nor quick enough to do all you felt; nevertheless it was very beautiful. I should think you were tormented a little by having too much feeling.
If it is fine to-morrow I have promised to take a drive, but the second fine day, whatever…
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 471 - 473Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904