Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Old Master Day Sale including Old Master Paintings, Drawings and British Works on Paper
Property of a Lady
JOHN RUSKIN | ARICCIA, NEAR ROME
Lot Closed
July 29, 02:48 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Lady
JOHN RUSKIN
London 1819 - 1900 Brantwood
ARICCIA, NEAR ROME
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with touches of bodycolour, on blue paper
framed: 565 by 675 mm
unframed: 340 by 470 mm
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With Agnew's, London;
from where acquired by the present owner
In 1840, following a bout of poor health, Ruskin was encouraged by his doctors to take a holiday in Italy. In September of that year he set out with his parents on a tour which was to last nine months. During the course of his travels, Ruskin made a series of large drawings on blue paper, near Rome, in the eternal city itself, in Naples, at Amalfi, Salerno and elsewhere. The present drawing shows the Chigi Palace and Bernini’s church of Santa Maria dell’ Assunzione, at Ariccia in the Roman Campagna.