Kirkby Lonsdale: What Ruskin really said.
This article visits the famous ‘Ruskin’s View’ at Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria. It is so christened after a particularly purple description of the scenery by Ruskin. Hardly anyone, however, has … Continue reading
March 30, 2016 · 3 Comments
Cotman and Turner’s ‘Van Tromp’: A newly identified study of 1832
On 10 May 2015, I posted a short article identifying one of the Cotman sketches at Leeds Art Gallery as a memorandum of a painting by Turner, ‘Helvoetsluis’, exhibited at … Continue reading
March 9, 2016 · Leave a comment
News: Ruskin’s watercolour of Bellinzona
On 29 September 2014 Sublimesites.co published an article, ‘In Ruskin’s Footsteps at Bellinzona’. This focused on an important watercolour that Ruskin painted there in 1868, and for the first time … Continue reading
March 3, 2016 · Leave a comment