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Call Number:
MSS 37
Title(s):
Sketch of rocks related to Aiguille Drawing
Date:
between 1855 and 1856?
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
volume 1, page 64
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The collection is open without restriction.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Sketch, measuring 15 x 23 cm, in pencil and watercolor of plate engraved on following page. Sketch is of Plate 32, Aiguille Drawing, in Modern Painters Vol. IV. This plate is discussed in letters on pages 13-14, 17, and 61.
Genre:
Correspondence , Photographs, Albumen prints, and Drawings (visual works)
Subject Terms:
Engravers
Engraving
Illustration of books
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Oxford Museum
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900
Le Keux, John Henry, 1812-1896
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
Finding Aid Title:
John Ruskin letters to John Henry Le Keux
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449690
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3449690?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1