Engraved by Horsburgh after Turner. ( England and Wales. Rawlinson 272. Wilton 848.) Rawlinson quotes extensively from Ruskin 's discussion of this work, which Ruskin considered to be 'well-engraved' ( MP I:370).
The original watercolour was at some time in Ruskin 's collection ( Works, 13.601), and in a letter to the Daily Telegraph of 5 July 1876, he mentions it as an example of the damaging effect of strong light, observing that after exhibition in 1857 it was the 'mere wreck of what it was' ( Works, 13.343). In the notes on the 1878 exhibition of works from his own collection by Turner, Ruskin comments on Turner's compositional use of the repetition of forms in the picture, and points out that its 'chief wonder... is in the exquisite stone and ivy drawing of the grey ruin' ( Works, 13.441-42).