. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. snow come on, before I hati well begun what 1 meant to do. If 1had only counted my pines first, and calculated the number of hours necessary to dothem in the manner of Dflrer I (Afornings in Florence, p. 141).— Turner countedhis pines, or at least estimated their uncountablcncss. 1 did not understand hiswarning, and went insanely at them, at first, thinking to give some notion of themby sheer labour. This Pass of the Cenis was one trial of the matter. The placeitself, a glorious piece of Alpine wilderness, radiant with
. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. snow come on, before I hati well begun what 1 meant to do. If 1had only counted my pines first, and calculated the number of hours necessary to dothem in the manner of Dflrer I (Afornings in Florence, p. 141).— Turner countedhis pines, or at least estimated their uncountablcncss. 1 did not understand hiswarning, and went insanely at them, at first, thinking to give some notion of themby sheer labour. This Pass of the Cenis was one trial of the matter. The placeitself, a glorious piece of Alpine wilderness, radiant with cascades and (lowersamong the forest glades—the modern traveller passes beneath it after some eighteenhours night and morning travel, in wearied looking out for the custom-house atModanc, and derives much benefit, doubtless, from the dews of morning on thosewild-wood glens. Hut one couldnt draw them with pen and sepia, I found ; nor,even with ones best pains, in r ■■■■ - ■ \../. y Mr. linskin on his Collection ofDrawings, etc., pp. 117, IIS. o 2; o ow 2 ^■MMIhdiiuS^ 303 PLATE III. 304 VIEW OF LUCERNE, FROM ABOVE.(1866.) Educational Series 117 (Case v.). Pencil drawing on tinted paiier ; an elementary illustration of landscajie. The drawing is one ofseveral selected by Mr. Ruskin to enforce on his pupils the use ofpure pencil outline as the most valuable of all means of obtainingsuch memoranda of any scene as may explain to another person,or record for yourself, what is most important in its features {Laivs of Fisolc, ch. iv., § 19). The drawing was included in theexhibition at the Fine Art Societys Galleries in 1878 (No. 40), andwas described as follows :— I spent the summers of some half-dozen years in collecting materials foretchings of Friboiirg, Lucerne, and Geneva, but had to give them all up,—themodern mobs madness destrojing all these towns before I could get them drawn,by the insertion of hotels and gambling-houses exactly in the places where
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