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View of a Colliery at the Edge of a Town
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View of a Colliery at the Edge of a Town

John Ruskin | George Price Boyce

1865–75

Medium

Watercolor over graphite on card

Tags

CastlesHousesChurchesHillsTrees

Dimensions

sheet: 11 15/16 x 10 3/16 in. (30.4 x 25.8 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2002

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Ruskin

1819–1900 • United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom

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."

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