Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in November, 1853
John Ruskin's 1855 lecture volume, published in London by Smith, Elder and Co., gathers talks given at Edinburgh in 1853 on architecture and painting, with Turner and Pre-Raphaelitism among its subjects. The plates show Gothic architectural details drawn in fine line: pointed arches, a quatrefoil-patterned column pair, a traceried oval window, and a canopied niche with a carved figure. A designer might take from them the rhythm of Gothic tracery, the crisp line of stone ornament, and the idea of ornament built from natural leaf and cross forms.
