BIB_ID
315480
Accession number
MA 7798.87
Creator
Mason, Hugh, 1820-1886.
Display Date
1878 Apr. 23.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.0 cm
Notes
Alfred Hunt, Margaret Hunt, John Simon and William Cowper-Temple organized a subscription for the purchase of J. M. W. Turner's watercolour "Pass of the Splügen" for John Ruskin in 1878. This tribute was in celebration of his recovery from a long period of mental illness.
J. M. W. Turner's "Pass of the Splügen" is now in a private collection.
Part of a large collection of letters to Joan Severn. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed with the family crest and written from "Groby Hall / Ashton-under-Lyne."
J. M. W. Turner's "Pass of the Splügen" is now in a private collection.
Part of a large collection of letters to Joan Severn. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed with the family crest and written from "Groby Hall / Ashton-under-Lyne."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Enclosing a contribution towards the subscription; adding, in a postscript, that he "was at Coniston yesterday--am glad to find Mr. Ruskin so much better."
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