The life and work of John Ruskin
A two-volume-style Victorian biography of the English art critic John Ruskin, written by his follower W. G. Collingwood and published in London by Methuen in 1893 for general readers interested in art and letters. The pictures are pencil and etching-style plates: a rotated Gothic facade with traceried windows, a dark sketch of a stepped stone passage, a bearded portrait of an elderly man, and a tree-lined reflective pool. A designer could draw on their loose, sketchy line work and soft grey tonal shading for hand-drawn textures.
