Record ID:
199534
Accession number:
MA Unassigned
Description:
1 picture: cut silhouette ; 6 13/16 x 6 3/8 in. (173 x 162 mm.)
Notes:
On verso: Di Pa as a child certified by himself! In another hand: The above writing is in the hand of Mrs. A. Severn.
Detached from its original mount, on which is written "Silhouette Portrait of John Ruskin. The inscription 'Di Pa' etc. is in the writing of Mrs. Arthur Severn (John Ruskin Severn). This is the first, known, portrait of Ruskin.:
Summary:
Silhouettes cut from black paper and pasted down, depicting John Ruskin as a boy with a dog.
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