Ruskin appears to have been the first person in print to use the colouristic names to describe the Rigis in his 1878 account of their genesis. In the Bicknell sale at Christie's in 1863 it was simply described as 'The Righi'. With its erstwhile companions, The Red Rigi (in Australia since 1947), and The Dark Rigi, it is one of comparatively few works of art to have become better known by a sobriquet rather than by the sober title under which it was acquired by its first owner, Elhanan Bicknell, in 1842. ![]() ![]() No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA…įor more than a century The Blue Rigi has been widely admired as one of Turner's most perfect watercolours.
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