Ruskin Memorial at Keswick

Friars Crag (on the edge of Derwentwater)

1900

Text: [under Ruskin's portrait]

THE FIRST THING
WHICH I REMEMBER
AS AN EVENT IN LIFE
WAS BEING TAKEN BY
MY NURSE TO THE BROW
OF FRIARS CRAG ON
DERWENTWATER [— Ruskin]

Other views

  • detail (Ruskin's portrait in bas relief)
  • detail (rear of monument with text)

    • Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee.

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