John Ruskin

watercolour over pencil, heightened with bodycolour on blue grey paper

12.0 x 17.6 cm

Jun 27, 2024 • Sotheby's

pencil, pen and ink, watercolour and wash

40.0 x 31.1 cm

Mar 29, 2023 • Bonhams

Watercolor over pencil

23 x 19.8 cm

Jan 25, 2023 • Sotheby's

charcoal and wash heightened with white

14.5 x 19 cm

Mar 30, 2022 • Bonhams

expressing his scorn for contemporary art and the art market, calling upon the arundel society to employ copyists to reproduce the italian old masters rather than relying on chromolithography, and claiming such copies would have much greater value than contemporary art ("...do you think that, if a group of figures by perugino, or luini, as beautiful in many respects as the original - would not be a better decoration for your drawing room than an oil painting - such as you are likely now to get of them - of an old gentleman with his family late at a party - or a drowned child and a starving dog tied to a mast!..."), corrections and revisions throughout, 7 pages, folio, text on rectos only, each page neatly repaired where previously cut in half for ease of reference when presenting the lecture, each half-page separately paginated

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

writing with some high-handed disdain on financial matters ("...i am glad, (if i rightly understand your note) - that it's no worse - and that my bits of paper are still worth 500 pounds?..."), 2 pages, 8vo, oxford, 27 june 1875 and 1 march, n.y.

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

providing his expert opinion on works by turner, the first asserting a picture to be "a copy of a most beautiful turner"; four letters on another painting, concluding that "it ought not be to bought for the glasgow gallery" and grumbling about the trouble and expense of having been sent the original painting rather than a photograph; the final two letters discussing a drawing ("...send the drawing to christies with a reserve price. no turner is ever allowed by the london dealers to slip them; and you will get its full value..."); 10 pages, 8vo, 1 august 1873 to 21

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

signed photograph

10.6 x 6.4 cm

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

regretting that he cannot come to her performance ("... the character and variety of your matinee would have exhausted my broken powers of attention - and you might perhaps have seen me look weary..."), assuring her that her "genius and perseverance - if they are what your letters lead me to suppose, will ensure you finally succeed", and looking forward to hearing her recite at home and to a promised kiss, 3 pages, 8vo, n.p., 29 june, n.y., with autograph envelope, fold tear

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

[also with:] manuscript lecture, with corrections, headed in pencil "the aim of poetry an inaugural lecture delivered at the sheldonian theatre oxford 24th oct 1877 (copied the above)", 4 pages, 4to

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

[with:] john ruskin

15 x 10 cm

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

returning a plate to his publisher with revisions ("...if you take the pencil outline of the figure - and put the half tints of the ink shaded one, i think it will do well enough..."), 2 pages, 8vo, n.p., 22 december 1882, pre-printed envelope, spotting

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

14 pages (numbered 5-18), c.3700 words, folio, text on rectos only, each leaf window mounted, bound in brown morocco gilt by riviere, gilt lettered on upper cover, in a blue folding box, first preliminary leaf partially detached, binding worn at corners and joints with some loss

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

issued to ruskin for travel on the continent, 1 page, folio, 10 april 1872, stamped and signed by the french consulate in london on the same date, 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, tongue of wallet cracked and fragile

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

laid down in volumes i and vii of an incomplete set of ruskin's works, uniformly bound in charterhouse prize bindings of blue calf gilt, volumes numbered in gilt on the spine, comprising:

Dec 14, 2021 • Sotheby's

Watercolour over pencil, on blue paper

56.5 x 67.5 cm

Jul 20, 2020 • Sotheby's

175 x 115 mm

Jun 25, 2020 • Christie's

pen, brown ink, watercolour and gouache over pencil on paper

16.5 x 22.5 cm

Jul 3, 2019 • Bonhams

works on paper

96.6 x 45.6 cm

Jan 30, 2019 • Sotheby's

works on paper

18.5 x 32.3 cm

Jan 30, 2019 • Sotheby's

works on paper

14.4 x 16.9 cm

Jan 30, 2019 • Sotheby's

works on paper

20.1 x 38.1 cm

Jan 30, 2019 • Sotheby's

water and bodycolour on grey-green wove paper

7.3 x 10.8 cm

Nov 13, 2018 • Bonhams

works on paper

34 x 47 cm

Jul 5, 2017 • Sotheby's

works on paper

14.3 x 18.5 cm

Jan 25, 2017 • Sotheby's

pencil and watercolour on card

30 x 40 cm

Dec 7, 2016 • Christie's

pencil and watercolour

28.6 x 23 cm

Dec 7, 2016 • Christie's

31.8 x 26.7 cm

Dec 7, 2016 • Christie's

18.1 x 27.7 cm

Dec 7, 2016 • Christie's

pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour

13.8 x 22.5 cm

Dec 7, 2016 • Christie's

pencil, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white

51 x 35.3 cm

Sep 27, 2016 • Christie's

watercolor on paperr

7 x 8 cm

Sep 17, 2016 • Clars Auction Gallery

Nov 24, 2015 • Sotheby's

pencil, pen and ink on card, in a common mount, unframed

20.3 x 15.2 cm

Jul 21, 2015 • Christie's

pencil, pen and ink and brown wash on paper, unframed

36.8 x 24.7 cm

Jul 21, 2015 • Christie's

pencil, pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white, on two sheets, laid down on common board, unframed

36.8 x 21.2 cm

Jul 21, 2015 • Christie's

the first pen and ink, heightened with white on marine paper ; the second pencil, pen and ink and watercolour heightened with white on ochre paper, in a common mount, unframed

11.5 x 10.1 cm

Jul 21, 2015 • Christie's

Jul 8, 2015 • Sotheby's

Jul 8, 2015 • Sotheby's

Jul 8, 2015 • Sotheby's

Jul 8, 2015 • Sotheby's

pencil and watercolor heightened with touches of bodycolor on buff paper

9.91 x 16.21 cm

Jun 16, 2015 • Christie's

Dec 17, 2014 • Sotheby's