John Ruskin 1819-1900

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Description

John Ruskin
A Study of a Church, Baden
inscribed l.r.: badens / June 4th 1859
watercolour over pencil
18.7 by 10.5 cm., 7 1/2 by 4 1/4 in

with four pencil sketches of the steeple verso

Catalogue Note

Similarly to lot 236, this work was drawn as part of Ruskin's so called Swiss- town project as the following lot explains in detail. Baden is a town in the Swiss canton of Aargau, on the left bank of the river Limmat, 25 kilometres north west of Zurich.