Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
X - NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I “ACADEMY NOTES” (1855–1859, 1875)
- LIST OF ARTISTS AND WORKS MENTIONED IN “ACADEMY NOTES”
- PART II LETTERS AND PAPERS ON PICTURES AND ARTISTS (1858–1887)
- PART III NOTES ON SAMUEL PROUT AND WILLIAM HUNT (1879–1880)
- APPENDIX
- I LETTERS ON “ACADEMY NOTES”
- II LETTERS TO JAMES SMETHAM (1854–1871)
- III SPEECH ON THOMAS SEDDON (1857)
- IV LETTERS TO G. F. WATTS, R.A. (1860–1866)
- V THE REFLECTION OF RAINBOWS IN WATER (1861)
- VI EVIDENCE BEFORE THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION
- VII MODERN CARICATURE
- VIII THE ART OF MEZZOTINT (1884)
- IX THE NUDE IN ART (1885)
- X NOTES ON J. E. MILLAIS, R.A. (1886)
- XI PASSAGES FROM EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, ETC.
- Plate section
Summary
“Preface.—The permission given to the compiler of the following catalogue to insert pieces of my former criticism in it was given in the hope that some of the fragments might add interest to the most important exhibition of English art yet held in this country; but having no time to read the proofs of the catalogue itself, I must in the outset broadly efface any impression that may be given by it of my criticisms having been of any service to the Pre-Raphaelite school, except in protecting it against vulgar outcry. The painters themselves rightly resented the idea of misjudging friends that I was either their precursor or their guide; they were entirely original in their thoughts, and independent in their practice. Rossetti, I fear, even exaggerated his colour because I told him it was too violent; and to this very day my love of Turner dims Mr. Burne-Jones's pleasure in my praise.—John Ruskin, Brantwood, 22nd Jan. 1886.”
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 495 - 496Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904