Design for an Arch
John Ruskin
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
30.5 × 22.4 cm (12 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
graphite
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
44582
About the Artist
John Ruskin
Ruskin was the most important British architectural critic of the nineteenth century. While still an undergraduate, Ruskin contributed a number of articles on "The Poetry of Architecture" under the nom de plume of Kata Phusin to J. C. Loudon's "Architectural Magazine." He was appointed first Slade Professor at Oxford University in 1868. He is the author of "The Stones of Venice."