Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
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Martigny; travelling in the olden time, and hotel accommodation, equally a thing of the past; again one R. of Turner’s most beautiful compositions, which can only be understood by copying it, nor, even so, without much love of things usually despised.