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Sunday, October 10, 2010

John Ruskin - after Joseph Mallord William Turner - Rouen from St Catherine's Hill



bears annotations in margin in Ruskin's hand
pen and ink
18 x 23cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/16in).


Sold for £1,800 inclusive of Buyer's Premium

Acquired by John James Ruskin, 1856;
Thence by descent to John Ruskin;

The watercolour version of this drawing by Joseph Mallord William Turner, which was appeared in Turner's Annual Tour, The Seine, 1834, was sold at Christie's in 1979 and is listed in Andrew Wildman's Catalogue Raisonné, no. 966, provenance also with John Ruskin.

London, Fine Art Society, 1878

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