BIB_ID
315688
Accession number
MA 7798.156
Display Date
[1878].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 25.2 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).
Year of writing inferred from the contents of the list; the month is most likely April or May.
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).
Year of writing inferred from the contents of the list; the month is most likely April or May.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Being a list of subscribers to the gift to John Ruskin of the Turner drawing, "The Pass of the Splügen."
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