The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
John Ruskin
ca. 1866
Medium
Watercolor, gouache (bodycolor), pen and brown ink, over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 7 5/8 x 10 in. (19.4 x 25.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935
Accession Number
48.149.22
Tags
Mountains
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."