BIB_ID
315699
Accession number
MA 7798.162
Creator
Mount-Temple, William Francis Cowper-Temple, Baron, 1811-1888.
Display Date
1878 June 22.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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 "15, Gt. Stanhope Street. / W."
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 "15, Gt. Stanhope Street. / W."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Sending the Banker's Book "in order that you may show to Mr. Ruskin the names of those who contributed with so much joy;" adding that this list "does not contain the names of those who sent their subscriptions to Mr. Simon or to Mr. Hunt, for only the aggregate of those subscriptions are entered here."
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