Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Studies of Architecture at the Church of St. Etienne, Beauvais, & [to verso] Sketch of a Mountain Top, Lecco, Italy, 13th April [1846], pencil, brown ink and brown wash on wove paper, inscribed to upper right 'Details of Norman tower, Beauvais, 13th April', and 'St. Etienne, Beauvais, Gable of trancept' lower right, plus further annotations in ink in Ruskin's hand, together with a rough sketch in pale yellow and pale blue wash, with brown ink and pencil, of a mountain top at Lecco, near Como, Italy, inscribed Lecco in ink in Ruskin's hand, lower right, some surface marks and light soiling, short closed tear without loss to lower edge (approximately 1cm), sheet size 18 x 27 cm (7.1 x 10.6 ins) (Qty: 1) Provenance: John Ruskin's Collection at Brantford until at least 1912; Private Collection, Hampshire. Literature: E.T. Cook and Alexander Wederburn, Works of John Ruskin Catalogue of Drawings, volume 38, page 230, number 173 'Beauvais, Church of St. Etienne, Notes of details, pencil and wash, 7 x 10 1/4 ins'. Exhibited: Ruskin Memorial Exhibition, Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours, February-March 1901, 323. John Ruskin was with his parents in Beauvais between 9th and 12th April 1846 according to the diary of his father John James Ruskin. The date on the present drawing now suggests that they must have left on the 13th, travelling through Paris without stopping. Later in the trip they passed through Como (6th May), Bergamo, Lecco and Brescia before reaching Verona on the 10th. Entries in Ruskin's surviving diary for 1846 begin only on the 14th April when they reached Melun. There are two other known drawings from this period, like this one presumably from a now dismembered sketch book. 'Study of a River Bank' (Thomson Collection) is inscribed 'Beauvais/April 10th', with a drawing of trees at Pont sur Yonne to verso dated 'Ap.14', plus an architectural detail inscribed 'Chanceaux/Ap. 17'. This drawing, inscribed with a larger scale 'J Ruskin 1846' is typical of inscriptions added by him at a later date. See Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from a David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press, 2000, page 64, figure 25. A second double-sided sheet of landscape, inscribed 'Sens. April 15th./1846' is in the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley (CP/TR 22). We are grateful to Professor Stephen Wildman for supplying the information contained in this catalogue entry.
Ruskin (John, 1819-1900). Studies of Architecture at the Church of St. Etienne, Beauvais, & [to verso] Sketch of a Mountain Top, Lecco, Italy, 13th April [1846], pencil, brown ink and brown wash on wove paper, inscribed to upper right 'Details of Norman tower, Beauvais, 13th April', and 'St. Etienne, Beauvais, Gable of trancept' lower right, plus further annotations in ink in Ruskin's hand, together with a rough sketch in pale yellow and pale blue wash, with brown ink and pencil, of a mountain top at Lecco, near Como, Italy, inscribed Lecco in ink in Ruskin's hand, lower right, some surface marks and light soiling, short closed tear without loss to lower edge (approximately 1cm), sheet size 18 x 27 cm (7.1 x 10.6 ins) (Qty: 1) Provenance: John Ruskin's Collection at Brantford until at least 1912; Private Collection, Hampshire. Literature: E.T. Cook and Alexander Wederburn, Works of John Ruskin Catalogue of Drawings, volume 38, page 230, number 173 'Beauvais, Church of St. Etienne, Notes of details, pencil and wash, 7 x 10 1/4 ins'. Exhibited: Ruskin Memorial Exhibition, Royal Society of Painters in Water-colours, February-March 1901, 323. John Ruskin was with his parents in Beauvais between 9th and 12th April 1846 according to the diary of his father John James Ruskin. The date on the present drawing now suggests that they must have left on the 13th, travelling through Paris without stopping. Later in the trip they passed through Como (6th May), Bergamo, Lecco and Brescia before reaching Verona on the 10th. Entries in Ruskin's surviving diary for 1846 begin only on the 14th April when they reached Melun. There are two other known drawings from this period, like this one presumably from a now dismembered sketch book. 'Study of a River Bank' (Thomson Collection) is inscribed 'Beauvais/April 10th', with a drawing of trees at Pont sur Yonne to verso dated 'Ap.14', plus an architectural detail inscribed 'Chanceaux/Ap. 17'. This drawing, inscribed with a larger scale 'J Ruskin 1846' is typical of inscriptions added by him at a later date. See Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from a David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press, 2000, page 64, figure 25. A second double-sided sheet of landscape, inscribed 'Sens. April 15th./1846' is in the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley (CP/TR 22). We are grateful to Professor Stephen Wildman for supplying the information contained in this catalogue entry.
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