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View of a Colliery at the Edge of a Town

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Date

1840-1849

Artist

Circle of John Ruskin (1819-1900)

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/352290

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Ruskin became one of the most influential critics of the Victorian era, a close friend of J. M. W. Turner, and himself an accomplished watercolorist. From about the age of ten he carried a sketchbook with him on trips, and was particularly attracted by geological features that define landscapes. This drawing describes a valley with coal mining machinery in the middle distance before houses, a church, and distant hill crowned by a castle. Colored washes use acid green, mauve, pink, dark green and brown to distinguish key forms, with graphite only applied to describe water running over rocks, and a row of foreground flowers. The curling upturned ends of the lines, and overall refinement and precision are in keeping with Ruskin's early work of the 1840s when his style remained close to that of his teacher James Duffield Harding. Medium: watercolor over graphite on card.

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

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England

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