Author

Salvator Rosa(1615–1673)

Salvator Rosa is documented in Fuller’s letters (1839). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1839

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“There was a book of studies from Salvator Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation, at the Athenaeum, which I looked over with great delight and got many thoughts of my journal.”

Six Etchings from Salvator-Rosa · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1839

When Fuller engaged with Salvator Rosa

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Rosa in Fuller’s reading world

Six Etchings from Salvator-RosaInferred1839

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1839—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p32

analyzed · read

“There was a book of studies from Salvator Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation, at the Athenaeum, which I looked over with great delight and got many thoughts of my journal.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller examined a book of studies by Salvator Rosa at the Boston Athenaeum and recorded that she "got many thoughts of my journal" from viewing it; as Hudspeth identified as likely the 1788 London edition of Six Etchings from Salvator-Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation.

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p44

analyzed · read

“In Salvator I saw this sublime poverty in its finest state.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller refers to Salvator Rosa by name, invoking his "sublime poverty"—the noble austerity and austere grandeur characteristic of his visual style—which she had recently encountered through a book of studies at the Athenaeum.