John Ruskin

Mountain Landscape

1834/73 · Black chalk, with stumping, brush and gray wash ,and white gouache, on gray wove paper, tipped onto green wove paper · 26.1 × 36.5 cm (10 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Mountain Landscape, Ruskin, 1834/73
Art Institute of Chicago

Ruskin, Mountain Landscape, 1834/73. Black chalk, with stumping, brush and gray wash ,and white gouache, on gray wove paper, tipped onto green wove paper.

The Art Institute of Chicago · The Charles Deering Collection

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