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Limestone Cleavages at Talloires, France

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art | All Rights Reserved

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Date

1862

Artist

John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Ruskin spent several months in Switzerland and the Haute-Savoie, France in 1862-3. Talloires is on the east bank of the Lake of Annecy, about twenty-five miles south of Geneva. He was working on a book on Swiss towns and studying the geology of the area. In his Deucalion, published between 1875 and 1883, Ruskin writes: `I quickly saw that the elements of the question were all gathered in the formation of the mountains round the Lake of Annecy: and at Talloires, in the spring of 1862, made a series of studies of them, which only showed me how much more study I wanted.’

Inscription

Signed lower right: Limestone Cleavages, Talloires/JR 1862

Descriptive Medium

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour on buff paper

Image Licence

All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

image © Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Location

Talloires, France

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Mountains

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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