St. George of the Seaweed [print] / Thos. Boys Aq fort.

Accession number: 
PML 146533.16
Author: 
Boys, Thomas Shotter, 1803-1874, etcher.
Published: 
[London? : s.n., ca. 1856]
Description: 
1 print : etching ; plate mark: 203 x 305 mm; sheet: 425 x 273 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Proof before letters.
Line etching by Boys after a drawing by Ruskin, possibly a rejected plate for Ruskin's 1843-1860 edition of Modern painters; the same design later executed in mezzotint by G. Allen for an illustration for the 1888 edition of Ruskin's work.
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).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Print shows view of a church with square tower on an island at left, with mountain peaks on the distant shore.

Classification: 
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