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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Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 167
The Alps of the Grande Chartreuse. Leaving the Bernese district we cross to that of Grenoble, and approach the Alps of Savoy under their terrific precipices of limestone above Chambéry. It is one of his greatest mountain-studies, wholly superb in its expression of the great plains at the foot of the Alps and of the vineyard and village life which they bound with pasturage and snow.