Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
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Study from part of the group of Scotch Firs on the left of Turner’s great picture Crossing the Brook, to show its complexities of light and shade. The student cannot too long confine himself to such studies of Foliage in one R. tint. The moment he allows himself the pleasure of green colour he will begin to be satisfied that he has painted a Tree when he has merely laid on a splash of green, and he will be rewarded for his self-denial by pleasures in Winter-scenery nearly as great as other artists can receive from the richest Summer-verdure.