John Ruskin, 1819–1900, British, Doorhead of the Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro, undated
- Title:
Doorhead of the Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Pen and black ink, brown wash and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (22.5 x 27.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, within image, center: "PAX HVIC | DOMVI | No 33 | SALIZADA | DI S FRANCE SCO"; lower right: "N 2924"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Chauncey B. Tinker, B.A. 1899
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.829
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angel | arch | architectural subject | doorhead | grotesques | monument | palace | relief | scroll (information artifact) | shield | statue | wings
- Associated Places:
- Italy | Palazzo Contarini della Porta di Ferro | San Marco | Veneto | Venezia | Venice
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6354
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Robert Hewison, Ruskin on Venice, "the paradise of cities" , Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010, p. 195, fig. 69, NJ18 R895 H482 (YCBA)
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