Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
iamjapanese: John Ruskin（British, 1819-1900） Ivy-Leaved Toadflax (‘Oxford Ivy’)    1852 Watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink over graphite on blue wove paper
iamjapanese: John Ruskin（British, 1819-1900） Oak Leaves in Autumn    1860 engraving on wove paper（engraver:James Charles Armytage）
iamjapanese: John Ruskin（British, 1819-1900） Chestnut Leaves   1870? Pen, ink and watercolor on white paper
    You sent for me to talk to you of art; and I have obeyed you in coming. But the main thing I have to tell you is,—that art must not be talked about.
Thanks:)) lushlight: Enlarged Pencil Study of Haliotis Shell: John Ruskin 1870? Ashmolean ‘God is In The Detail’- my dear friend Yama Bato
Arches and Capitals By John Ruskin 1849 – 1852
John Ruskin (1819-1900) Entrance to the South Transept of Rouen Cathedral 1854 link
Kelmscott Press The Nature of Gothic by John Ruskin (first_page) link More : The nature of Gothic : a chapter of The stones of Venice (1892) Author: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900; Morris, William, 1834-1896; Kelmscott PressSubject: Architecture, GothicPublisher: Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press ; London and Orpington : Published by George Allen http://www.archive.org/details/natureofgothicch00rusk                       Examples of the Architecture of Venice’ was a folio of plates first published in 1851 in connection with Ruskin’s book on Venetian architecture, ‘The Stones of Venice.’ link
John Ruskin (1819–1900)Self-Portrait, in Blue Neckcloth Watercolor and gouache 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 in. (353 x 253 mm) Inscribed, in pencil, on verso, Di Pa by himself link
John Ruskin (1819–1900)View of Brugg Watercolor and gouache, with pen and black ink, over pencil 8 x 10 3/8 in. (203 x 264 mm) link
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