Influential English art critic and writer (1819-1900) remembered as a champion of the work of J.M.W. Turner. ALS signed “J. Ruskin,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8.25, June 11, 1860. Handwritten letter to a gentleman in Edinburgh, written from Geneva. In part: "You see I am not at all in Highland neighborhood just now—otherwise indeed I should have been delighted to spend another day among the heather…I think that Killiecrankie bit is about the prettiest thing I saw in Scotland—but that heather, pretty though it be, is very tiresome walking…I am afraid I am not good for much more looking at pictures either. I have given up looking at any thing but Turner & Venetians:—they being the people whom it is my business in this world to study." In fine condition, with light overall wrinkling and a small circular adhesive remnant to the second page.
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