Collection Trails
Academics, curators and other writers select objects from John Ruskin's Teaching Collection and provide background on a variety of themes.
Each contribution is accompanied by suggestions for further reading.
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John Ruskin's Oxford teaching collection
Rupert Shepherd introduces some of the works of art and reproductions which Ruskin assembled to help him teach his students and explains how Ruskin structured the collection.
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John Ruskin and the Geographical Imagination
Denis Cosgrove selects works from Ruskin’s Teaching Collection and shows that, while they can be enjoyed for their aesthetic qualities alone, as educational tools they reveal a poetry of landscape that inspired geographical learning a century ago.
