Merganser
John Ruskin
February 29, 1890
Medium
Watercolor, over traces of graphite, on tan wove paper
Dimensions
18.2 × 23.2 cm (7 3/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
watercolor
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
113265
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."