Vignette, Vista of Cassel Hill

The editors of the Library Edition describe the image as a “sketch of trees in the foreground on either side, and a town with three windmills in the distance” (Ruskin, Works, 2:342 n. 3). Between the coulisses of the foreground foliage, the vista shows a distant town sitting atop an eminence, which suggests Cassel Hill mentioned in the poem following the illustration. Two small figures occupy the foreground, one seated and one standing and pointing at the vista.