RUSKIN JOHN 1819-1900
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The Pass of St. Gotthard, near Faido
Etching after J.M.W. Turner "The Pass at Faido"
Inscribed on back in pencil:-
"21 Pass of Faido (2nd Turnerian Topography) IV"
Signed in plate "J Ruskin 1856.7"
17 x 11cm
Literature:
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. IV, London, 1860, plate 21
The present plate is based on Turner's watercolour The Pass at Faido, St Gotthard, now in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Ruskin himself travelled to Faido in 1845 to make his own sketches and was surprised to discover that "the mountains, compared with Turner's colossal conception, look pigmy & poor." (see Letter dated 15th August 1845, Ruskin in Italy: Letters to his Parents, 1845, H.I.Shapiro ed., Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 172).
This plate and its companion, The Pass of Faido (1st Simple Topography) which was more closely based instead on Ruskin's own on-the-spot drawing of the scene, were both etched for Ruskin's Modern Painters to demonstrate the difference between a topographical and an imaginative vision of a landscape.
A very scarce etching
Etching after J.M.W. Turner "The Pass at Faido"
Inscribed on back in pencil:-
"21 Pass of Faido (2nd Turnerian Topography) IV"
Signed in plate "J Ruskin 1856.7"
17 x 11cm
Literature:
John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. IV, London, 1860, plate 21
The present plate is based on Turner's watercolour The Pass at Faido, St Gotthard, now in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Ruskin himself travelled to Faido in 1845 to make his own sketches and was surprised to discover that "the mountains, compared with Turner's colossal conception, look pigmy & poor." (see Letter dated 15th August 1845, Ruskin in Italy: Letters to his Parents, 1845, H.I.Shapiro ed., Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 172).
This plate and its companion, The Pass of Faido (1st Simple Topography) which was more closely based instead on Ruskin's own on-the-spot drawing of the scene, were both etched for Ruskin's Modern Painters to demonstrate the difference between a topographical and an imaginative vision of a landscape.
A very scarce etching
