BIB_ID
191755
Accession number
MA 7783
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
1829.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (31 p.), bound : ill. ; 175 x 110 mm
Notes
Autograph title page reads "The Puppet Show / or Amusing Characters / For Children / With Coloured Plates / By John Ruskin / 1829."
Some of the illustrations were copied by Ruskin after Cruikshank's illustrations to Grimm.
This item was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Some of the illustrations were copied by Ruskin after Cruikshank's illustrations to Grimm.
This item was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
A collection of twenty-nine short poems by John Ruskin, each of which he has illustrated with two pen-and-ink drawings, written in a neat "print" hand.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (19.3 cm)
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