Sand Mountain Scene — John Ruskin

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Artist: John Ruskin
Date: 1839
Medium: Etching on paper
Location: Art Institute of Chicago
Collection: Prints and Drawings
Culture: England
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin was a Victorian polymath whose passionate defense of J.M.W. Turner's "truth to nature" profoundly shaped 19th-century art and thought.

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