Tower of the Cathedral at Sens
John Ruskin
c. 1845
Medium
pen and brown ink, brush and black ink, black chalk, and watercolor over graphite on brown paper
Dimensions
sheet: 40.7 x 30.6 cm (16 x 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1987.73.2
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."