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Stones of Venice : autograph manuscript fragment, [18--].

BIB_ID
285913
Accession number
MA 7365
Creator
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900.
Display Date
[18--].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; matted to: 43.7 cm
Notes
Single page from Ruskin's Stones of Venice, v. 1, chapter 1 ("The quarry"), section XXXIII; text beginning: a peculiar and very primitive condition of pointed Gothic had arisen in ecclesiastical architecture ...; and concluding: ... the other principal Gothic palaces, on the secular side, will be the subject of the third division of the essay.
Written in ink on blue paper; page number "22" written at upper right.
Provenance
Inked inscription on matt at lower right: A portion of the MS of Ruskin's "Stones of Venice." Presented to John Morgan by Mr. George Allen 1878; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.