Ruskin's drawings (Hardcover)

This handbook is part of a series on fine and decorative arts which aims to bring to a wide public the varied collections housed in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Each volume examines a topic or field in which the Museum's holdings are internationally renowned.;This volume reveals John Ruskin's finest drawings, which were part of his bequest to the Ashmolean Museum in 1875. They include architectural drawings, landscapes and studies of rocks, trees, flowers and birds.;The author traces Ruskin's career as an artist and reveals the elaborate but unfulfilled educational programme that lay behind his bequest.