John Ruskin (1819-1900) etching by Lamplight watched by Louisa Caroline Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton (1827-1903)
William Bell Scott (Edinburgh 1811 - Penkill Castle 1890)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1864
Materials
Paper, watercolour paint giltwood ,glass
Measurements
329 x 248 mm (13 3/4 x 9 7/12 in)
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 582297
Summary
Watercolour on paper, John Ruskin (1819-1900) etching by Lamplight and Louisa Caroline Mackenzie, Lady Ashburton (1827-1903) watching, by William Bell Scott (Edinburgh 1811 – Penkill Castle, Strathclyde 1890), 1864. Two half-length portraits of a man and woman at a table.
Provenance
Given by Sheila Pettit, Blagdon House, Seaton Burn, Stannington, in memory of her husband G.F. Pettit or given by Miss Z. Pettit in January 2001.
Marks and inscriptions
Etching with lithographic pen by way of giving a lesson in drawing- (across the bottom in the same handwriting)
Makers and roles
William Bell Scott (Edinburgh 1811 - Penkill Castle 1890), publisher