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Day trip to @AshmoleanMuseum to see some favourite Pre-Raphaelites - and admire Ruskin's eye and hand. (Ruskin, 'Kingfisher' & Charles Allston Collins, 'Convent Thoughts ',1851)
This version is now in the V&A, while the original (commissioned by Frances Horner) is in Mells church. It is plain white plaster. It hangs close to the 'Love' embroidery worked by Frances to #BurneJones's design (also in V&A)
Fred Leighton knows that one emotional support #peacock is never enough (c. 1863, private collection) @emeraldthiele
Here are a few of my favourite #Ravilous works - I love the nod to Samuel Palmer in his harvest illustration. And the dreadful delicacy of the gun battery. And my first slide tomorrow has to be 'The Carnation House' with all its negative/positive play
Finding Beauty in a cataclysm- #Ruskin watches an avalanche:'spire of ice -dome of snow- wedge of rock .. a celestial city with walls of amethyst & gates of gold.. I learned the real meaning of the word Beautiful' (watercolours 1886 & 1846)
Date for my diary - #Ravilious exhibition opening @DulwichGallery, April 1st. Includes w/col of Hurricane in Flight