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Auction House: Sotheby's
Auction Location: United Kingdom
Auction Date: 2004
Description: signed l.r.: St Helena, Venice/JR.1874.
pencil heightened with white
Dimensions: 18 by 26.5 cm., 7 by 10 1/2 in.
Provenance: THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Joan Ruskin Severn, a gift from the artist;
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 12th July 1984, lot 42
Notes: Ruskin described Venice as 'the Paradise of Cities' and wrote 'I have found nothing in all Italy comparable to Venice...it is insulted by a comparison with any other city of earth or water' (see E.T.Cook, The Life of John Ruskin, 1911, p.119).
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