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John Ruskin | A series of 25 autograph letters signed, to Edmund Oldfield of the Arundel Society, 1851–1872

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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 110

John Ruskin | A series of 25 autograph letters signed, to Edmund Oldfield of the Arundel Society, 1851–1872

Schätzpreis
6.000 £ - 8.000 £
ca. 8.326 $ - 11.102 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.820 £
ca. 12.240 $
Beschreibung:

John Ruskin A series of 25 autograph letters signed, to Edmund Oldfield of the Arundel Society one to Oldfield's mother, many of considerable length, the series largely about pictures published by the Society, most especially Ruskin's beloved Tintorettos at the Scuola San Rocco ("...of all the Italian school, Tintoret is the one who ­­– in proportion to his real power – is the least known – and whose works are being fastest destroyed..."), for which he himself promises to furnish the drawings ("...for Tintoret's touch and modulation of tone no mortal can approach in any way..."), as well as the Society's publication of works by Giotto and Fra Angelico; the series interlarded with characteristic observations, as, for example, on the British public which he believes to be an "Unteachable animal" ("...It is a great, odd – not altogether insensible – but altogether unmanageable monster – you cannot tell when – or how – it will admit a new idea into its head – nor can you set forth anything so plainly as that the creature can understand it, unless it takes it in its own way and time..."), and glimpses of his domestic life with Effie ("...I have been busy, but not in a vortex of gaiety, unless going out every day before breakfast to Denmark Hill & writing there till three, & playing with my dog in the garden till five or so – But the evenings I generally give to my wife – considering myself her attache – for whatever purposes she may want me..."), one of the letters being written during the famous Highland holiday with Millais ("...we are staying here with John Millais & his brother, reducing Highland streams to preRaphaelite obedience -- if we can..."), another praising his rival ("...As for Millais' entrance into the Academy, I hold the academy to be honoured, not Millais. I would not give the smallest picture by him for all the Academicians send in a year, put together..."); other subjects broached including the life and talents of B.R. Haydon: “he never received from youth to age one atom of wholesome advice from anybody, he had to find out all for himself and fight for it, when found, and, poor fellow, finding out truly (for which may he evermore be respected), the value of the Elgin marbles, and being excited by contradiction to a morbid estimate of the applicability of their merits to modern purposes, he tries, as hundreds of others have tried, to get sentiment out of anatomy, and fails, as hundreds have failed and as all will fail who try it – but more totally than anybody else – because he had neither taste – nor judgment, nor religion. Mere belief in a Supreme being always ready to hear a prayer for the accomplishment of his own will in this world, is not religion; and the perception of veracity in muscles is not taste...” also providing a lengthy exposition of Ruskin's views on medieval glass (rewriting and amplifying an essay by Oldfield), sending a touching letter of congratulation on Oldfield's betrothal, and letting drop several hints of his growing social conscience and the storm clouds that darkened his later years: “I believe we shall have to work with sharper tools than burins soon – and on harder things than steel – hearts – and consciences. – You must not however depend much on what I think or say, for the further reason that what you have heard of me is quite true, and I am not therefore – nor have been these last six months – quite in my right wits...” two of the letters apparently incomplete (or possibly two parts of the same letter), c.50 pages, 4to and 8vo, few address panels and envelopes, Venice, Scotland, Denmark Hill, Brantwood and elsewhere, 1851-1872 where dated, minor creasing Included with the letters is watercolour sketch by Ruskin (A3469), annotated by him and docketed in another hand: "Sent by John Ruskin to Edmund Oldfield in 1845 as a specimen of the painted glass of the Cathedral at Rouen", a copy of a stained glass triptych possibly by him, and some other studies.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 110
Auktion:
Datum:
12.07.2021 - 20.07.2021
Auktionshaus:
Sotheby's
London
Beschreibung:

John Ruskin A series of 25 autograph letters signed, to Edmund Oldfield of the Arundel Society one to Oldfield's mother, many of considerable length, the series largely about pictures published by the Society, most especially Ruskin's beloved Tintorettos at the Scuola San Rocco ("...of all the Italian school, Tintoret is the one who ­­– in proportion to his real power – is the least known – and whose works are being fastest destroyed..."), for which he himself promises to furnish the drawings ("...for Tintoret's touch and modulation of tone no mortal can approach in any way..."), as well as the Society's publication of works by Giotto and Fra Angelico; the series interlarded with characteristic observations, as, for example, on the British public which he believes to be an "Unteachable animal" ("...It is a great, odd – not altogether insensible – but altogether unmanageable monster – you cannot tell when – or how – it will admit a new idea into its head – nor can you set forth anything so plainly as that the creature can understand it, unless it takes it in its own way and time..."), and glimpses of his domestic life with Effie ("...I have been busy, but not in a vortex of gaiety, unless going out every day before breakfast to Denmark Hill & writing there till three, & playing with my dog in the garden till five or so – But the evenings I generally give to my wife – considering myself her attache – for whatever purposes she may want me..."), one of the letters being written during the famous Highland holiday with Millais ("...we are staying here with John Millais & his brother, reducing Highland streams to preRaphaelite obedience -- if we can..."), another praising his rival ("...As for Millais' entrance into the Academy, I hold the academy to be honoured, not Millais. I would not give the smallest picture by him for all the Academicians send in a year, put together..."); other subjects broached including the life and talents of B.R. Haydon: “he never received from youth to age one atom of wholesome advice from anybody, he had to find out all for himself and fight for it, when found, and, poor fellow, finding out truly (for which may he evermore be respected), the value of the Elgin marbles, and being excited by contradiction to a morbid estimate of the applicability of their merits to modern purposes, he tries, as hundreds of others have tried, to get sentiment out of anatomy, and fails, as hundreds have failed and as all will fail who try it – but more totally than anybody else – because he had neither taste – nor judgment, nor religion. Mere belief in a Supreme being always ready to hear a prayer for the accomplishment of his own will in this world, is not religion; and the perception of veracity in muscles is not taste...” also providing a lengthy exposition of Ruskin's views on medieval glass (rewriting and amplifying an essay by Oldfield), sending a touching letter of congratulation on Oldfield's betrothal, and letting drop several hints of his growing social conscience and the storm clouds that darkened his later years: “I believe we shall have to work with sharper tools than burins soon – and on harder things than steel – hearts – and consciences. – You must not however depend much on what I think or say, for the further reason that what you have heard of me is quite true, and I am not therefore – nor have been these last six months – quite in my right wits...” two of the letters apparently incomplete (or possibly two parts of the same letter), c.50 pages, 4to and 8vo, few address panels and envelopes, Venice, Scotland, Denmark Hill, Brantwood and elsewhere, 1851-1872 where dated, minor creasing Included with the letters is watercolour sketch by Ruskin (A3469), annotated by him and docketed in another hand: "Sent by John Ruskin to Edmund Oldfield in 1845 as a specimen of the painted glass of the Cathedral at Rouen", a copy of a stained glass triptych possibly by him, and some other studies.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 110
Auktion:
Datum:
12.07.2021 - 20.07.2021
Auktionshaus:
Sotheby's
London
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