One of the drawings belonging to Ruskin, which he presented to the Ruskin School, Oxford. The Rigi, a distinctively formed rock facing Lucerne across the lake, had a particular fascination for Turner, who, during his visits to Switzerland of 1840 and 1841, made studies of it over and over again in different lights and climatic conditions. He seems hardly ever to have drawn it in pencil, though there are a few rough notes of it in sketchbooks such as the 'Between Lucerne and Thun' Sketchbook (T.B.CCCXXIX); and sometimes the colour sketches are washed in over a slight outline. They often approach an extreme of delicacy hardly to be paralleled in Turner's output (see No.597). It is an indication of the interest which the Rigi had for him that three of the ten subjects proposed to Griffith in 1841 (see p. 163) showed it (see Nos.601 and 603). See also the 'Lucerne' sketchbook, No.618.