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The Mountains of Villeneuve

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Description: The Mountains of Villeneuve

TitleThe Mountains of Villeneuve

Creator nameLe Keux, John Henry

Creator name (description)after John Ruskin

Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1856

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationBeinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsMountains in artLandscape prints, BritishNature in art

StatusPlate 40 from Modern Painters IV (Smith, Elder and Co., London: 1856)

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Mountains in Miniature: Ruskin’s Sketching and Empowerment

Tara Contractor

Description: Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin

Utterly alone against a shadowy background, the John Ruskin depicted in Frederick Hollyer’s portrait of 1894 gazes fixedly through an unseen window (cat. 69; fig. 10). The image suggests little of the frailty, madness, and despair that plagued Ruskin in his final years, presenting a resolute figure seated in the study of his...

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Tara Contractor

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Copyright© 2019 Yale University

Related print edition pages: pp.31-47

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00234.002

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Chapter subject tags:Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Drawing, BritishArchitecture, GothicGuild of St. George

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