The Garden of San Miniato near Florence
1845
Medium
watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper
Dimensions
Overall: 34.2 x 49.2 cm (13 7/16 x 19 3/8 in.) mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1991.88.1
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."