A Popular handbook to the National gallery : including, by special permission, notes collected from the works of Mr. Ruskin
A popular guide to the National Gallery in London, compiled in 1888 by Edward Tyas Cook with notes drawn from John Ruskin's writings and published by Macmillan in London and New York for general visitors to the collection. The four pictures are horizontal red-and-white decorative panels with framed bands of foliage, nude figures and winged putti, several with a central female figure flanked by reclining or kneeling figures, offering a designer historical Victorian ornamental borders and frieze compositions in classical revival style.

















