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AUTUMN ON LAKE GEORGE
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RUSKIN, JOHN; AND JOHN H. HILL. Watercolor landscape by Hill, Signed
and Inscribed by both, in blank lower margin. 4
1
/
4
x6
1
/
4
inches (image), 6x8
3
/
4
inches overall;
faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, some remnants of matting adhesive at
extreme edges.
Np, circa 1873
[1,000/2,000]
Ruskin, lower right:“Very beautiful and what few / would have seen, in light & colour. / JR.”
Hill, lower left:“Autumn on Lake George—sketch from / nature. J. Henry Hill 1873.”
WITH
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Facsimile of ALS by Ruskin to “My dear Sir [probably Hill],” asking whether he may keep
the “most interesting” etchings and drawings a week longer and hoping to “find an important career
opening for you.” Coniston, 23 August 1881.