Turner 's Dawn of Christianity (Flight into Egypt), oil on canvas, exhibited Royal Academy 1841, Ulster Museum, Belfast ( Wilton P394). Ruskin would have seen this in the collection of B.G. Windus, who bought the picture at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1841.
J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851
Dawn of Christianity 1841
Oil on canvas, circular, 78.5cm diameter
Exhibitions: RA 1841 (532); RA 1951-2 (165); Agnew 1967 (31, repr. In colour on cover); RA 1974-5 (519)
Provenance: B.G. Windus, bought from the RA 1841; sale Christie's 20/6/1853 (3), bt in; sale Christie's 26/3/1859 (49), bt in; sale Christie's 19/7/1862 (57), bt. Rought; Louis Huth; sale Christie's 2/3/1872 (74) bt. Agnew;R.K. Hodgson M.P., who sold to Agnew, 1891, who sold to Sir Donald Currie; presented to the Belfast Art Gallery by Lady Currie, 1913
Further Comments: At the exhibition of 1841 the painting was displayed with a quotation from the poem 'Spring' by Rev. Thomas Gisborne: 'That Star has risen'.
Collection: Ulster Museum, Belfast, N. Ireland
For a reproduction of this artistic work, please consult: Shanes, Eric, Turner's Human Landscape, (Heinemann, 1990), p.228