JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)

Lot 50
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Lot 50 | JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)
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JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)
The Château of Amboise
pencil, pen and blue ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of white and with scratching out, on duplex paper
17 ½ x 11 ½ in. (44.4 x 29.1 cm.)




Provenance

Robert Ellis Cunliffe (1848-1902), and by descent to his daughter
Mrs. Dorothy Ellice Barton (neé Cunliffe, b.1884), and by descent to her son
Guy Barton (1907-1981) and by descent until
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1983, lot 197.
Private Collection, USA, 1984.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2000, lot 347.



Literature

E. T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (ed.), The Works of John Ruskin, Library Edition, London, 1903-12, vol. XXXV, pp. 301-2.
W. Robertson Nicoll, The Bookman, 'Ruskin-Eight Years After. The Library Edition of Ruskin', 1908, vol. XXXV, issue 205, opposite p. 16, illustrated.
J. S. Dearden, The Connoisseur, 'The Cunliffe Collection of Ruskin Drawings', 1969, vol. 171, no. 690, p. 237.
P. H. Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford 1972, pp.45-6, pl.27.
I. Warrell, Turner on the Loire, London, 1997, pp. 202-3, fig. 189 (exhibition catalogue).
R. Hewison, I. Warrell and S. Wildman, Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, London, 2000, p.64, no.40 (exhibition catalogue).



Exhibited

London, Society of Painters in Water-Colour, Ruskin Memorial Exhibition, 1901, no. 133.
Manchester, City Art Gallery, The Ruskin Exhibition, 1904, no. 89.
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Ruskin - An Exhibition to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of his Birth, July-September 1969, no.7.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, British Council, Two Hundred Years of British Painting 1680-1880, November 1979 - January 1980, no.202.
London, Tate Gallery, Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, March-May 2000, no.40.



Engraved

by Edward Goodall (1795-1870) for Part V of John Ruskin's 'The Broken Chain' in 'The Friendship's Offering', 1844.
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