. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. o S> op 2i<J p3 313 PLATE VIII. 314 EVENING IN AUTUMN UNDER THE CASTLE OF HAPSBURG. (1858.) Educational Series 299 (Case xii.) Water-colour drawing. The distantmountains, being blue in the original, have been necessarily lost inthis reproduction. Mr. Ruskins landscape-subjects arc generally chosen for their human interest(sec pp. 17, 288). Some reflections suggested by the scene here depicted—thecentre of .Swiss feudal power, Ilapsburg, the hawks nest from which the SwissRodolph rose to found the Austrian empire—m
. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. o S> op 2i<J p3 313 PLATE VIII. 314 EVENING IN AUTUMN UNDER THE CASTLE OF HAPSBURG. (1858.) Educational Series 299 (Case xii.) Water-colour drawing. The distantmountains, being blue in the original, have been necessarily lost inthis reproduction. Mr. Ruskins landscape-subjects arc generally chosen for their human interest(sec pp. 17, 288). Some reflections suggested by the scene here depicted—thecentre of .Swiss feudal power, Ilapsburg, the hawks nest from which the SwissRodolph rose to found the Austrian empire—may be read in Mr. Ruskinsliitiiigiiral Address at the Cambridge School of Art, p. 17 (in On the Old Road,i., 423).. H H w 315 PLATE IX. 3i6 STUDY OF KINGFISHER. (About 1871 ?.) Rudimentary Series 201. Water-colour drawing. Tiiis is one of several exercises in colour with shade, on patterns of plumage and scale {Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, p. 21, and see Fors Clavigera,Letter 65, p. 162). Jhese exercises were done by Mr. Ruskin forthe purposes of his Drawing School, and I have, therefore, datedthis one tentatively as above. Mr. Ruskins examples of birds, flowers, etc., were expressly chosen, as alreadyexplained (see pp. 80, 107), with a view to interesting his pupils in mythology andnatural history. His remarks on the kingfisher will be found in Lecture IX. of TheEagles Nest. To-day, as we arc about to begin our exercises in bird-drawing, 1think it may interest you to review some of the fables connected with the naturalhistory of a single bird, and to consider what effect the knowledge of such traditionis likely to have o
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