John Ruskin
Schriftsteller und Maler, 1819-1900
John Ruskin war ein britischer Schriftsteller, Maler, Kunsthistoriker und Sozialphilosoph. Seine erste große Arbeit, eine mehrbändige „Geschichte der modernen Malerei“ – Originaltitel „Modern Painters“ –, veröffentlichte er in den Jahren von 1843 bis 1860. Mit diesem Werk wurde er zum Entdecker und Förderer des Malers William Turner. Mit „The Seven Lamps of Architecture“ (1849) und dem dreibändigen Werk „The Stones of Venice“ (dt. „Die Steine von Venedig“, 1851) leistete Ruskin wichtige Beiträge zur Architekturtheorie. 1870 wurde er zum ersten Professor für Kunst an der Universität Oxford ernannt, wo er eine Zeichenschule gründete.
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English art critic, watercolourist, and social thinker (1819-1900). Two parts of an autograph letter to an unknown correspondent. no place, no date. 8vo. 1 1/2 pp.
800 €
(93503)
Two parts of an autograph letter to an unknown correspondent, written by Ruskin, the last page signed by him with pen sketches requesting „a clean little wood drawing of No.6, the breadth of my letter page“. The top half of the first page refers to „woodcuts...which were admirably made out and admirably done, only a little too fine, the elevation at least. All my woodcuts are for reference.“ On the reverse of each page are pencil sketches, one of a Fern case, with detailed notes. There is a note at the top of the first page in another hand referring to Smith & Elder, Ruskin's publishers.
Maler, Kunsthistoriker und Sozialreformer (1819-1900). Eigenh. Brief mit U. Herne Hill, London. 30.07.1872. 1 S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo.
850 €
(938098/BN938098)
An den kunstsinnigen Französischlehrer, Übersetzer und Journalisten Hermann Kindt (1834-89), der sich in Yarm (Yorkshire) niedergelassen hatte: "Sir, Returning from abroad I find your obliging letter which I regret should have remained so long unanswered. I have directed copies of the Crown of Wild Olive & Political Economy of Art to be forwarded to your address by my publishers. These two books will give quite sufficent example, for your purposes, of what I can do best either in thinking or speaking [...]". Das geprägte Monogramm "AS" vom Schreiber durchgestrichen. Faltspuren. - Zu Kindts Korrespondenten zählten Charles Darwin, John Herschel, Eduard Mörike und Ferdinand Freiligrath.
art critic (1819-1900). Autograph letter signed ("JRuskin"). Herne Hill, i. e. London. 15.12.1882. 8vo. 1 p. on bifolium.
1.500 €
(62305/BN45499)
"My dear Madam / If I were to call on you at the Albert Hall one day next week could you show me anything you are doing or an idea of the models you use? [...]". - Small tears in centerfold; included are an Elliott & Fry carte-de-visite, and a cabinet card with Ruskin's photograph. - From the collection of Diana Herzog.
English art critic, watercolourist, and social thinker (1819-1900). Passport, signed. London. Folio. 1 page. Folded in a green leather gilt custom wallet by J. W. Adams, passport agent, of Fleet Street, with notebook (unused) and pencil, Ruskin's name lettered in gilt.
6.500 €
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Issued to Ruskin for travel on the Continent, stamped and signed by the French consulate in London. - Tongue of wallet cracked and fragile, otherwise in good condition.
English art critic, watercolourist, and social thinker (1819-1900). Autograph letter signed. Brantwood, Coniston. 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium.
850 €
(92202/BN61233)
To Captain Johnston, apologizing that a servant had poached game birds and expressing his dismay at such an act: "I am greatly delighted with these lovely birds - and especially grateful to you for sending them to me, after the vexation caused you was I have heard by one of my servants. I have spoken to him, and assure you that if he does not entirely quit such courses, he shall not stay with me. I can excuse a gipsey's poaching, as I could a border prey, but for my own well fed servants to steal birds is the exact worst offence against me they could commit against myself [...]". - With embossed letterhead and traces of old mounting on the verso. Slight foxing and staining.
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2 autograph letters signed.
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Both to the noted British geologist Sir Charles Lyell. The letters can be dated to 1847, when John Ruskin spent several weeks at Leamington Spa for medical treatment and visited Scotland in the fall. - In response to an invitation: "Your kind letter would have been answered before - if I had not been detained here by [Dr Henry] Jephsons authority - and I am now on parole - nor can I tell when I shall regain my liberty. I did not, consequently, receive your letter until this morning - I have no doubts, however, of being able to wait upon you some day before the end of August - if however I do not recover strength fast enough to be able to fix a time so long before as to be quite sure of not inconveniencing your family, I will not come this season - but shall look forward to some opportunity of a hill ramble with you under more fortunate auspices. Pray return my most sincere thanks to Mr. Lyell for his kind aquiescence in your invitation [...]" (July 21st). - On 2 September he writes with geological observations from Mount Schiehallion, Perthshire: "I only received your kind note the day before yesterday - then being on the point of writing to you to express to you my regret that I had been detained in Leamington beyond the time when I could hope to have the pleasure of waiting on you. Jephson would not let me stir and I have too much respect and feel too much gratitude towards him ever to vex him by disobedience - though I did fancy that I might recover strength quite as fast on the sandstones of Kirriemuir as of Warwickshire. I am here at last but too late for the fine weather - and - as I dreaded - for my much desired expedition to Kirriemuir. - I have been surprised by the look of the rocks under Schehallein [!] here - there is a strip of gneiss about a quarter of a mile wide - I don't know how long - with many ups and downs, weathered as if it had been a torrent bed for a thousand years - while on each side of it the same rock is quite fresh & hard edged - even more so than is usual on exposed surfaces. - I am really disappointed with the things they call hills here - but the crags & heather, and birch woods are very lovely. [...]". - The two letters give important testimony to the friendship of John Ruskin and Sir Charles Lyell as well as to their shared interest in geology. Ruskin's fragile health had led him to Leamington Spa before, when he spent six weeks there in the late summer of 1841. The gratitude towards his physician Henry Jephson that Ruskin underlined in the letter to Lyell can be linked to this earlier episode. Neither in his diaries nor in his autobiography does Ruskin mention the invitation to Kirriemurie, while he includes his stay at Leamington Spa and the subsequent visit to Perthshire. In the autobiography Ruskin dedicates an entire chapter to Crossmount, a hunting lodge at the foot of Mount Schiehallion, where he stayed following the invitation of William Macdonald Farquharson (1822-93). There he enjoyed gardening above all: "The thistle-field at Crossmount was an inheritance of amethystine pleasure to me; and working hours in it are among the few in my life which I remember with entire serenity - as being certain I could have spent them no better" (Ruskin, Praeterita, Oxford 2012, pp. 273-274). Another reflection of Ruskin's time and occupations at the foot of Mount Schiehallion is the charming watercolor study "Rocks and ferns in a wood at Crossmount, Perthshire" held at Abbot Hall Art Gallery. - With traces of former mounting to each letter.