Tree Study
John Ruskin
mid-1850s
Medium
pen and black ink with blue-gray and gray washes over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 28.4 x 38.1 cm (11 3/16 x 15 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
Accession Number
1988.20.38
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."