John Ruskin

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John Ruskin
1819-1900
Sketch of Edinburgh with Salisbury Craigs
Graphite on paper; verso: slight landscape sketch in graphite.
5 3/8 x 8 11/16 inches (136 x 221 mm)
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen.
1974.49:56
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Inscribed at lower right in graphite, "Edinburgh with Salisbury Craigs"/ "A slope of Arthurs seat-I don't recollect/ doing any of it! myself. (JR Brantwood/ April 87)"; on verso in graphite, "by J. Ruskin"; "Guigniaut. Galerie Mythologique. Paris. 1850"; "Gerhard GK Mythologie/ Muller Archaeologie der Kunst".

Provenance: 
Helen Gill Viljoen.
Associated names: 

Viljoen, Helen Gill, former owner.

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