Saturday, August 1, 2009

John Ruskin - Rock fragment


2 comments:

Esther Montgomery said...

I think I'd quite like a bit of explanation with this one, Hermes.

Esther

Hermes said...

Ruskin was a master of drawing and small scale watercolour studies of 'nature', and he had a fascination with geology and landscape. It seems to be the vein of quartz that attracted him here and he made a rather lovely watercolour of it I thought.