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The Palazzo Dario, Venice Giacomo Boni

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Giacomo Boni (1859 - 1925)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour and pen and ink over graphite on wove paper
    Dimensions
    396 x 268 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, within the drawing, carved across the lowest storey of the Palazzo, in watercolour: VRBIS GENIO IOANNES DARIVS

    Verso, top right, in graphite (recent): R 111 | G. Boni
    Provenance

    Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1883; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.RUD.111
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    building

    palace

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Rudimentary no. 111

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Arts and Humanities Research Council

University of Oxford

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

Ashmolean

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