Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Title:
The two paths : being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9 / by John Ruskin ...
Published / Created:
London : Smith, Elder, & Co., 1859.
Physical Description:
x, 271 p., 2 leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7445.2 R9 1859
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Plates engraved by R.P. Cuff and James Charles Armytage; after John Ruskin.

Advertisements: 24 p. at end, dated May, 1859.

Bound in blind-stamped maroon publisher's cloth. Binder's ticket reads: Westleys and Co., London.

Wise, T.J. Ruskin, 90
Contents:
The deteriorative power of conventional art over nations -- The unity of art -- Modern manufacture and design -- The influence of imagination in architecture -- The work of iron, in nature, art and policy.
Exhibition History:
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)
Subject Terms:
Westleys and Co. -- Bookbinder. | Smith, Elder & Co. -- Publisher. | Decorative arts. | Art. | Decoration and ornament. | Steel engraving -- Specimens -- 1859.
Contributors:
Cuff, R. P., fl. 1860, engraver. | Armytage, James Charles, 1802–1897, engraver. | Ruskin, John, 1819–1900, ill.