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John Ruskin
1819-1900
A Doorway Near Marco Polo's House, Venice
13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (336 x 252 mm)
Pen and brown ink, graphite, and blue wash on paper.
2024.106
Purchased on the Gordon Ray and the Ryskamp Fund.
Notes
Ruskin spent much time in Venice in the 1840s, leading up to his publication in 1851 of The Stones of Venice, in which he comprehensively detailed the medieval architecture of the city. This large sheet is typical of the so-called "worksheets" he made in preparation for the monumental three-volume work. The doorway he examines here, in a courtyard near the house of Marco Polo, appears as figure 7a in plate XIV of volume 2, and the doorway is mentioned both in volume 2 and 3 in discussions of the development of Venetian Gothic.
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensively inscribed with notes throughout.
Associated names
Winant, John G. (John Gilbert), 1889-1947, former owner.
Winant, Rivington, 1925-2011, former owner.
Winant, Rivington, 1925-2011, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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