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RUSKIN (JOHN) A bound volume of engraved views after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, INSCRIBED BY ...
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RUSKIN (JOHN) A bound volume of engraved views after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, INSCRIBED BY RUSKIN TO HIS FRIEND 'MARY CONSTANCE HILLIARD, with John Ruskin's dear love' on the front free endpaper, 73 engraved plates on india-proof paper mounted on stiff card, a few with light spotting, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spine (lettered 'Stanfield's Views'), large 8vo (230 x 155mm.), [1860s] Footnotes: A fine association set of engraved views of Europe by Clarkson Stanfield, inscribed with 'dear love' by Ruskin to Mary Constance Hilliard (1852-1915), one of his closest female friends. He first met her in 1863 when she was eleven, and she accompanied him (with her mother) on tours to France, Italy and Switzerland on three occasions between 1866 and 1870, and in later life they were in regular contact as both were connected to Joan Severn. The book was gifted just two months after the death of Clarkson Stanfield, whom Ruskin called 'the leader of the British Realists' and, next to Turner, 'the noblest master of cloud forms of all our artists' (Modern Painters, quoted in ODNB). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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RUSKIN (JOHN) A bound volume of engraved views after Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, INSCRIBED BY RUSKIN TO HIS FRIEND 'MARY CONSTANCE HILLIARD, with John Ruskin's dear love' on the front free endpaper, 73 engraved plates on india-proof paper mounted on stiff card, a few with light spotting, contemporary green morocco gilt, g.e., neatly rebacked preserving original spine (lettered 'Stanfield's Views'), large 8vo (230 x 155mm.), [1860s] Footnotes: A fine association set of engraved views of Europe by Clarkson Stanfield, inscribed with 'dear love' by Ruskin to Mary Constance Hilliard (1852-1915), one of his closest female friends. He first met her in 1863 when she was eleven, and she accompanied him (with her mother) on tours to France, Italy and Switzerland on three occasions between 1866 and 1870, and in later life they were in regular contact as both were connected to Joan Severn. The book was gifted just two months after the death of Clarkson Stanfield, whom Ruskin called 'the leader of the British Realists' and, next to Turner, 'the noblest master of cloud forms of all our artists' (Modern Painters, quoted in ODNB). This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • • Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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