John Ruskin

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John Ruskin
1819-1900
Landscape
Pink and ocher watercolor, over graphite, on paper.
5 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (130 x 210 mm)
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen.
1974.49:29
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Watermark: (partial) [WHA] TMAN/ [TURKE] Y MILL/ [18] 75.

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Inscribed at lower center in pen and brown ink, "The great wedge and [?return] precipice ten miles above/ Martigny... this high all is the upper creek of [?] that I climbed/ from [?] Sion".

Provenance: 
Helen Gill Viljoen.
Associated names: 

Viljoen, Helen Gill, former owner.

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