Following a restful summer (1841), Ruskin devoted much of the autumn and winter to preparations for his final examinations at Oxford under the guidance of his tutor, the Revd Osborne Gordon. In May 1842 Ruskin at last graduated with a degree which reflected both the brilliance of some of his answers and the thinness of his knowledge of the official syllabus, following the long, recuperative Continental Tour (1840-41): he gained a 'complimentary double-fourth'. How much progress had been made with' Turner 's work', as he then called the putative Modern Painters I, during this period is a matter of conjecture. It is likely that he thought about the project a good deal, and probably made notes, but did not actually write much, if anything, that finally went into print. (See long gestation period of Modern Painters I.)