Ruskin restored: further drawings and daguerreotypes from the HLF Conservation Project

7 January - 23 April 2006


Aiguille, Daguerreotype 1854	Chamonix, Mont Blanc, Daguerreotype 1854	Chamonix, Mer de Glace, Daguerreotype
John Ruskin, Palazzo del Comune and Campanile of Duomo, Pistoia, 1845 or 1846	A new selection from more than 400 drawings and watercolours by Ruskin conserved over the last three years, thanks to a substantial grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Also on show for the first time since their examination and conservation are many examples from the important collection of 125 historic early daguerreotypes bought or made by Ruskin in the 1840s and 1850s, including some of the earliest photographs ever taken in the Swiss Alps.	John Ruskin, Houses in Naples, 1841

John Ruskin, Ponte Vecchio, Florence, 1882?	John Ruskin, Studies, probably near Arona, 1846	John Ruskin, Mountains of Villeneuve, 1846-1849

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