Sold for:
$296
$296
John Ruskin (British, 1819-1900) View of a Northern Alps Landscape Unsigned, identified on a label from Goodspeed's Book Shop, Boston, on the reverse. Graphite on paper, sheet size 4 1/2 x 7 1/8 in. (11.4 x 18.1 cm), framed. Condition: Toning, tape hinged to window mat, foxing. Provenance: Sotheby & Co., London, May 20, 1931 Auction, Brantwood, lot 4. Note: The present work was one of several works purchased by Charles E. Goodspeed, Boston bookseller and Ruskin collector, from the contents of Ruskin's Brantwood house in Coniston, Cumbria. (1) 1. "The Portraits of Rose la Touche," The Burlington Magazine , Vol. 120, No. 899, February 1978, p. 96.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2010-01-09
