Lot 171
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JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)
JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)
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JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)

The shoreline and Irish Sea: view westward from Ruskin’s rooming house at Seascale

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JOHN RUSKIN (LONDON 1819-1900 BRANTWOOD)
The shoreline and Irish Sea: view westward from Ruskin’s rooming house at Seascale
with inscription ‘By JR’ (verso)
graphite, grey, blue and brown wash
5 x 6 7⁄8 in. (12.7 x 17.5 cm)
Provenance
possibly Edward Woolgar.
Emily Driscoll.
Charles Ryskamp; Sotheby’s, New York, 25 January 2002, lot 253.
Exhibited
London, The Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, Ruskin exhibition, 1901, no. 396.

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Lot Essay

Seascale, on the coast of Cumbria, is around 20 miles from Ruskin's home at Brantwood, Coniston. He spent time there painting the shoreline and the Irish Sea, and it became an important place for him. Indeed, one of his last watercolours, dated 1899, was painted there.

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