John Ruskin: The Power of Seeing

Two Temple Place, Sheffield

26 January – 22 April 2019

This exhibition, illustrates how Ruskin’s attitude to aesthetic beauty shaped his radical views on culture and society. The exhibition features significant loans from The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection. The exhibition marks the bicentenary of Ruskin’s birth, and brings together a range of works by Ruskin, including drawings, paintings, daguerreotypes, and plaster casts. Works from The Ruskin Whitehouse Collectiom, are on display as part of this exhibition which is produced by Two Temple Place, Museums Sheffield, and the Guild of St George.

A daguerreotype of village in front of a body of water with a row of tall tree to the right.
John Ruskin & Frederick Crawley, ‘Rheinfelden: Entry tower to the covered bridge’, 1858, 1996D0079 © The Ruskin, Lancaster University