Accession number:
PML 146533.16
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.
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