Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 183

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
"THAT BLUE DRESS WAS 'EXCELLENT WELL FANCIED!'" RUSKIN, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, "JRuskin," to "Dear Miss Rudkin," requesting that she send a bill [for the dress she purchased for him to give as a present]. 1 page, 8vo, "Corpus Christi College" stationery, with integral blank; horizontal folds, faint scattered soiling. Oxford, 7 February 1876
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"I don't usually let my debts stand so long; will you kindly send . . . the account for my last indulgence in your charming and too tempting imaginations. Really, in the truth of old English--that blue dress was 'excellent well fancied!'"
In his letter to Ms. Rudkin written on October 29 of the previous year, Ruskin asked that she find "a pretty, quiet, thoroughly strong, and not fussy nor catchy sort of dress for Ethel Hilliard."