BIB_ID
315694
Accession number
MA 7798.160
Creator
Hunt, Alfred, 1830-1896.
Display Date
[1878].
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 20.0 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).
Year of writing inferred from contents of the announcement.
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 contents of the announcement.
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Being an announcement, undersigned by Margaret Hunt and Jane Simon, to the contributors to the fund, that the List was closed and the picture "sent quietly to Mr. Ruskin at his residence at Coniston and was shortly afterwards transferred by him to the Fine Art Gallery, 148, New Bond Street, to be placed among his Turner Collection;" adding that Mr. Ruskin has "honoured his Friends by embodying his thanks in the Preface to the new Edition of his "Notes," in terms which are even more than adequate to the occasion."
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