The study of natural sciences, particularly geology and botany, were critical to Ruskin’s thinking. The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection contains scientific drawings and paintings by Ruskin and a number of his contemporaries, including detailed manuscript drawings of geological strata. These works demonstrate Ruskin’s life-long view that close observation of the natural world underpinned all thinking.
John Ruskin, Flora of Chamonix
John Ruskin, Diary Notebook 1861-1863
John Ruskin, Shell: A spiral
