Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great BritainRuskin, John
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Fors Clavigera (Volume 5 of 8): Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
Ruskin, John
Aesthetics; Conduct of life; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social problems; Working class -- Great Britain
V. The following account, with which I have pleasure in printing the
accompanying acknowledgment of the receipt, contains particulars of the
first actual expenditure of St. George’s monies made by me, to the
extent of twenty-nine pounds ten shillings, for ten engravings [79] now
the property of the Company. The other prints named in the account are
bought with my own money, to be given or not given as I think right.
The last five engravings—all by Durer—are bought at present for my
proposed school at Sheffield, with the Melancholia, which I have
already; but if finer impressions of them are some day given me, as is
not unlikely, I should of course withdraw these, and substitute the
better examples—retaining always the right of being myself the ultimate
donor of the two St. Georges, in their finest state, from my own
collection. But these must at present remain in Oxford.
London, October 5, 1875.
John Ruskin, Esq.
£ s. d.
St. G. 1. Apollo and the 1 0 0
Python, by Master of
the Die
,, ,, 2. Raglan Castle 3 10 0
,, ,, 3. Solway Moss 4 0 0
,, ,, 4. Hind Head Hill 1 10 0
,, ,, 5, a, b, Three impressions of 6 0 0
c. Falls of the Clyde
(£2 each)
,, ,, 6. Hindoo Worship 2 0 0
,, ,, 7. Dumblane Abbey 3 10 0
,, ,, 8. Pembury Mill
,, ,, 9. Etching of the 2 10 0
Severn and Wye
,, ,, 10. Tenth Plague (of 2 0 0
Egypt)
,, ,, 11. Æsacus and Hesperie 3 10 0
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29 10 0
(The above Prints sold at an unusually low
price, for Mr. Ruskin’s school.)
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