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29: 526: 418: 368: 241:. A crown of wild olive is seen in the background of the panel, which is hollowed to give the profile high relief, and Ruskin's motto, "To-day," is among the olive leaves in the background over the head. Above the portrait is the name "John Ruskin," beneath are his dates 1819 to 1900. Beneath these again is incised an inscription taken from 259:, and was so designed to indicate Ruskin's dot and dash style of drawing. Ruskin wrote that "all monuments to individuals are, to a certain extent, triumphant; therefore, they must not be placed where nature has no elevation of character." The scene was chosen thus, like the stone, which exists quite naturally amidst its surroundings. 226:
On the other side of the monolith, facing the lake which Ruskin once described "as one of the three most beautiful scenes in Europe," there is a medallion in bronze, the work of Signor Lucchesi, representing Ruskin in profile as he was in the early 1870s, when he composed
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The Spirit of God is around you in the air that you breathe,—His glory in the light that you see; and in the fruitfulness of the earth, and the joy of its creatures, He has written for you, day by day, His revelation, as He has granted you, day by day, your daily
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The first thing which I remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friar's Crag on Derwent Water.
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enclosed in a circle after the fashion of the earliest crosses, with the following inscription beneath from
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https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1327119
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Ruskin, John (1903). Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander (eds.).
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Ruskin, John (1904). Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander (eds.).
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Ruskin, John (1906). Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander (eds.).
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Modern Painters: Volume III. Containing Part IV: Of Many Things
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The lettering was designed and drawn by Ruskin's biographer,
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Coordinates
54°35′25″N 3°08′28″W / 54.59033°N 3.14098°W / 54.59033; -3.14098
Listed Building
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1327119
John Ruskin
Derwentwater
English Lakes
Friars' Crag
Keswick, Cumbria
Hardwicke Rawnsley
Borrowdale
standing stones of Galloway
Celtic people
Scotland
Chi-Rho
Fors Clavigera
Slade Professor of Fine Art
University of Oxford
Modern Painters
W. G. Collingwood
Historic England
"Statue of Thomas Carlyle, Embankment Gardens, Chelsea Embankment SW3 (1080715)"
National Heritage List for England
"Ruskin Memorial"
Deucalion and Other Studies in Rocks and Stones
Ruskin and the English Lakes
public domain
Modern Painters: Volume III. Containing Part IV: Of Many Things
Early Prose Writings

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