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John Ruskin
1819-1900
A Cluster of Oak Leaves
1856
Pen and black ink, pencil, gray wash, and white tempera, on blue wove paper.
8 1/4 x 11 inches (211 x 278 mm)
Purchased on the E.J. Rousuck Fund.
1977.27
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Watermark: none visible through lining.
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Signed and dated in pen and black ink at right, "J. Ruskin. 1856".
Provenance:
L.G. Duke; his sale, London, Sotheby's, 5 March 1970, lot 165; Stephen Spector.
Associated names:
Duke, L. G., former owner.
Spector, Stephen, 1946- former owner.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 291.
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