View of a Colliery at the Edge of a Town
Medium
Watercolor over graphite on card
Dimensions
sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2002
Accession Number
2002.91
Tags
CastlesHousesChurchesHillsTrees
About the Artist
John Ruskin|George Price Boyce
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."