Frederick Crawley: Daguerreotype of Fribourg |
In his autobiography, Praeterita, Ruskin described himself at the age of fourteen, in the summer of 1833, having 'so much of science mixed with feeling as to make the sight of the Alps not only the revelation of the beauty of the earth, but the opening of the first page of its volume.' Ruskin is perhaps most closely associated with Italy, chiefly through his championship of Venice, but his passion for Switzerland the Alps was to remain undimmed throughout hislife. Not only did he have an affinity with the landscape, especially as transcribed in the watercolours of J.M.W. Turner, whcih he and his father collected, but he was from an early age fascinated by geology. These two interests could be perfectly combined through travel in Switzerland.
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John Ruskin: St Gall |
John Ruskin: State of snow on Mont Blanc |
Pages from John Ruskin's Diary |
John Ruskin: Mountain and the Lake of Thun |
