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Fine Art Sale Lot 619

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) THREE RARE ETCHINGS comprising Lucerne after in part J M W Turner with old

JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) THREE RARE ETCHINGS comprising Lucerne after in part J M W Turner with old pencil inscriptions recto and verso including Given me by G A [? George Allen] Private work - never published - Etched by J R from Turner's Lucerne the little bits are experiments..., 17.5 x 27cm, laid down on the original mount, 30 x 33.5cm, Dawn after the Wreck, after J M W Turner, 1860 for the mezzotint engraved by T G Lupton for Modern Painters Vol V, with old pencil inscriptions recto and verso, 30 x 43.5cm and sheet of studies including Ruskin's chair in which he wrote Modern Painters and seashells, apparently unpublished, with old pencil inscription verso, 24.5 x 16.5cm, laid down on the original mount, sheet 44 x 29.5cm, unframedProvenance: The local Antique Dealer Miss Elizabeth Tyson (1878-1970) of Busk House, Ambleside by whom acquired in person at the Sale of the remaining contents of Brantwood, Coniston, July 1931 or else shortly thereafter; thence by descent to the present vendor

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