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Details of the architectural Mouldings on the Palazzo Dario, Venice Giacomo Boni

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Giacomo Boni (1859 - 1925)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    pen and ink on wove paper
    Dimensions
    488 x 345 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, all save the last in ink:
    left, towards top: _ Ultimo piano _
    right, towards top, underlined: Piano nobile
    left, centre: Primo piano
    right, centre: _ Piano terra _
    left, towards bottom: Basamento
    within the bottom left drawing, at the bottom of the mouldings: comune marea
    bottom left: [Ve]nezia Giugno 1881
    bottom centre: · Palazzo · Dario ·
    bottom right, in graphite (recent): R112

    Verso, bottom left, in graphite: Rud 112
    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.112
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  • 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. 112

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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