ADDITIONS TO SKETCHBOOK

Whitehouse acquired the sketchbook by 1923, when he published an account of it in the Beacon, and perhaps he had owned it "since 1919" (Dearden, Ruskin, Bembridge and Brantwood), dating from among his first acquisitions of Ruskin materials. In 1919, Whitehouse also founded Bembridge School, and one can imagine that the sketchbook, as a record of Ruskin's earliest art training, bore special resonance for the educator. Whitehouse interpreted Ruskin's art training as independent of masters and self-reliant, a view in keeping with the collector's conviction in the supreme value of individualism (see <John Howard Whitehouse>).

See Dearden, Ruskin, Bembridge and Brantwood, 38, for Whitehouse's acquisition of the sketchbook