Ruskin never lost his high regard for Turner 's engraved vignettes in Rogers's Italy and Rogers's Poems. He referred to them frequently in Modern Painters I (1843), to illustrate aspects of Turner's art. In his series of articles entitled The Cestus of Aglaia, published in The Art Journal during 1865-66, Ruskin considered the Rogers illustrations to be 'as skilful and tender as any handwork, of the kind, ever done' ( Works, 19.151). In 1881, in his notes on the Turner sketches in the National Gallery, he referred to them as 'the loveliest engravings ever produced by the pure line' ( Works, 13.380).
See also Ruskin and Turner's illustrations to Rogers's Poems. The influence of the vignette form of the Turner illustrations on Ruskin is discussed in Davis, Ruskin's Vignettes.