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Naples

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Naples

1841 (?)

Medium

Watercolor

Tags

Buildings Cities Volcanoes Cross

Dimensions

sheet: 13 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. (34.9 x 44.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About John Ruskin

1819–1900 • United Kingdom of Great Britain and IrelandUnited Kingdom

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."

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