Fortresses in Tyrol, near Mals (recto); Castle in Lenzburg (verso)
John Ruskin
1839/1900
Medium
Graphite (recto and verso) on buff wove paper
Dimensions
22.7 × 27.5 cm (8 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35622
About the Artist
John Ruskin
Ruskin was the most important British architectural critic of the nineteenth century. While still an undergraduate, Ruskin contributed a number of articles on "The Poetry of Architecture" under the nom de plume of Kata Phusin to J. C. Loudon's "Architectural Magazine." He was appointed first Slade Professor at Oxford University in 1868. He is the author of "The Stones of Venice."