Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

St. Michel, Jura

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John Ruskin
1819-1900

St. Michel, Jura

5 x 7 1/8 inches (123 x 179 mm)
Graphite, with gray and brown wash, on paper; verso: architectural details in pen and black ink.
1974.49:5

Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen.

Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower right, "St. Michel, Limestone, (Jura) altered". Inscribed on verso in pen and black ink over a partially legible pencil notation, "All the stone work of the window above the/ door stands clear of the glass. So that/ light comes through behind, and the cusps/ are framed by a square detached band, so./ 4. Inlaid white marble with black./ 5. An excessively rich classical moulding/ too fine to be traced./ 6. The pattern on Greek columns, down to/ the cross, is double; meeting in the middle/ In the side compartment there are/ alternate leaves like the big one at the/ top of the middle compartment, and/ fruit-like bunches as at 6."; beneath a small sketch, "Rosette in capital of Greek column"; at lower right, "by J. Ruskin"; along lower right edge in pen and black ink, "P. 1/ 27".
Associated names
Viljoen, Helen Gill, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department