Put view of Alps here ...from Col de la Faucille as background
This is where Ruskin's work began in 1835
Or so
(See Lost Horizon
Jesuit cities id South america ? See Valeurs Actuelles)
In Praeterita, Ruskin describes how on the tour he made with his parents in 18…he first viewed the Alps from the
Ther col de la Faucille opened to me on
that day of 1835, in distinct vision, the Holy Land of my future work, and true
home in this world
In 1869 Ruskin refers back to this in 1869
in his preface to the Queen of the Air
But it is now to bewail
Now it is as if hell had breathed on them
Now it is as if hell had breathed on them
Smoke has invaded
"This first day of May, 1869, I am writing where my work was begun thirty-five years ago, within sight of the snows of the higher Alps.2 In that half of the permitted life of man, I have seen strange evil brought upon every scene that I best loved, or tried to make beloved by others.3 The light which once flushed those pale summits with its rose at dawn, and purple at sunset, is now umbered and faint; the air which once inlaid the clefts of all their golden crags with azure is now defiled with languid coils of smoke, belched from worse than volcanic fires; their very glacier waves are ebbing, and their snows fading,4 as if Hell had breathed on them;
"This first day of May, 1869, I am writing where my work was begun thirty-five years ago, within sight of the snows of the higher Alps.2 In that half of the permitted life of man, I have seen strange evil brought upon every scene that I best loved, or tried to make beloved by others.3 The light which once flushed those pale summits with its rose at dawn, and purple at sunset, is now umbered and faint; the air which once inlaid the clefts of all their golden crags with azure is now defiled with languid coils of smoke, belched from worse than volcanic fires; their very glacier waves are ebbing, and their snows fading,4 as if Hell had breathed on them;
