Ruskin, John: The elements of drawing: in three letters to beginners (London, 1857)

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THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING. [letter ii.

careful light and shade to your pen drawing, so
as to make each study as complete as possible:
for which you must prepare yourself thus. Get,
if you have the means, a good impression of one
plate of Turner's Liber Studiorum; if possible,
one of the subjects named in the note below.1

power of design. But you may approach them, by perse-
verance, in truth of manner.

1 The following are the most desirable plates :
Grande Chartreuse. Little Devil's Bridge.

iEsacus and Hesperie. River Wye (not Wye and Se-

Cephalus and Procris. vern).
Source of Arveron. Holy Island.

Ben Arthur. Clyde.
Watermill. Lauffenbourg.
Hindhead Hill. Blair Athol.

Hedging and Ditching. Alps from Grenoble.

Dumblane Abbey. Raglan. (Subject with quiet

Morpeth. brook, trees, and castle on

Calais Pier. the right.)

Pembury Mill.

If you cannot get one of these, any of the others will be
serviceable, except only the twelve following, which are quite
useless: —

1. Scene in Italy, with goats on a walled road, and trees
above.

2. Interior of church.

3. Scene with bridge, and trees above ; figures on left, one
playing a pipe.