
Study of Wild Rose. John Ruskin. 1871. Source: Plate 40 in Hewison, John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye, which comments that Ruskin attributed his serious illness in 1872 to the difficulty he had with the subject (21.230).

Bibliography
Hewison, Robert. John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye.. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Plate 19 in Chapter 6. [Click on image to enlarge it.]
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