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 | | RUSKIN, JOHN (1819-1900), English writer and critic, was born in London, at Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, on the 8th of February 1819, being the only child of John James Ruskin [1785-1864] and Margaret Cox [1781-1871]. |
 | | At seventeen he wrote for Blackwood a defence of Turner [1775-1851], which the painter, to whom it was first submitted, did not take the trouble to forward to the magazine. |
 | | Clouds, mountains, landscapes, towers, churches, trees, flowers and herbs were drawn with wonderful precision, minuteness of detail and delicacy of hand, solely to recall some specific aspect of nature or art, of which he wished to retain a record. |
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