LOT DETAILS

Materials:

watercolours

Size Notes:

238 x 302

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Fine Art Society, Notes by John Ruskin on His Drawings by J.M.W.Turner, R.A.,1878, nos. 60-61

Literature:

Sir W. Armstrong,Turner, London 1902, p. 243, as The Bridge, 1840-5, 'Ex Ruskin Collection; A. Wilton,The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner,Fribourg 1979, p. 481, no. 1510

Provenance:

John Ruskin (1819-1900),; his sale, London, Christies, 22 July 1882, lot 59, as The Bridge; with Agnews, London;; by whom sold to Sir John William Ramsden, 5thBt (1831-1914), 27 February 1883;; sale, London, Sothebys, 18 March 1964, lot 20, as Bellinzona, bt. Castle 450;; G. L. Castle;; with P. & D. Colnaghi, London;; sale, London, Sothebys, 22 March 1979, lot 101, as A bridge over a river in the Alps,; where acquired by the parents of the present owners