Collection: The Ruskin

Collection-level records:

• Collection overview (Cornucopia)

  Personalia Collection

  The Library holds a number of objects owned by Ruskin and his family, commemorative material and other items of Ruskin memorabilia.

  Subjects

  Personalia

  Fine Art Collection

  The collection comprises nearly 1,500 drawings, watercolours and oil paintings by Ruskin and his friends and associates including Samuel Prout, Francesca Alexander and Albert Goodwin. The predominant theme is landscape and architecture, reflecting Ruskin’s own tastes, and there are also nature studies, copies of Old Master paintings, and portraits, plus a collection of prints.

  Subjects

  Fine Art

  Photographic Collection

  There is a large collection of around 1500 photographs, some from Ruskin’s own collection, 225 glass negatives and an important group of 125 daguerreotypes made under his direction and mainly featuring Gothic architecture.

  Subjects

  Photography

  Archives Collection

  The Whitehouse Collection includes nearly 8000 mostly unpublished letters, including correspondence with his cousin Joan Severn (of 3000 letters), other family members and also associates such as Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning and his publisher George Allen. The 305 manuscripts and transcripts contain 29 volumes of Ruskin’s Diaries (1835-1888), a selected edition of which has been published. The large collection of over 3600 books includes around 350 books from Ruskin’s Library and contains all of Ruskin’s published writings (a collected edition of 39 volumes). There are foreign language versions of some of the more important texts and also a comprehensive reference library of books about Ruskin. Other archives include transcripts, articles and newspaper cuttings featuring his whole range of interests including religion, geology, the arts and the environment.

  Subjects

  Archives

  Source: Cornucopia

  Date: Not known, but before 2015

  Licence: CC BY-NC