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Pass of Faïdo [print] : Turnerian topography.

Accession number
PML 146533.11
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, etcher.
Published
[London? : s.n., ca. 1856]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Proof before letters, printed in sepia ink.
Etching by Ruskin after J.M.W. Turner and published as an illustration in Turner's Modern Painters (London: 1856, v. IV, plate 21).
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 : etching ; plate mark: 207 x 285 mm; sheet: 425 x 273 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a mountain pass, with a carriage on the pass in the right foreground, about to climb above arches on mountain surface, rain in the background.
Classification
Department