Accession number
PML 146533.2
Creator
Armytage, James Charles, -1897, engraver.
Published
[London? : s.n., ca. 1860]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Proof before letters, printed en chine collé on india paper.
Engraving posthumously published as plate IX in v. XIX of the 1905 edition of Ruskin's collected works (London : George Allen); the introduction to the volume stating, "...plate (IX.) is a steel-engraving by J. C. Armytage, which Ruskin had prepared, perhaps for his intended Stones of Abbe-ville, but did not publish" (p. lxxvi).
Forms part of a bound album of proof impressions of etchings and engravings by or after John Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner (see PML 146533).
Engraving posthumously published as plate IX in v. XIX of the 1905 edition of Ruskin's collected works (London : George Allen); the introduction to the volume stating, "...plate (IX.) is a steel-engraving by J. C. Armytage, which Ruskin had prepared, perhaps for his intended Stones of Abbe-ville, but did not publish" (p. lxxvi).
Forms part of a bound album of proof impressions of etchings and engravings by or after John Ruskin and J.M.W. Turner (see PML 146533).
Description
1 print : steel engraving ; plate mark: 150 x 225 mm; sheet: 425 x 273 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
View of Abbeville, looking along a street with ruined abbey in foreground and house beyond.
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