• John Ruskin (draughtsman)

Sketches of a tomb, possibly that of Arnoldo Tentonino, in Sta. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice, for 'The Stones of Venice'

between 1849 and 1852

- Ruskin accepted Marchese Selvatico's identification of this tomb in Sta. Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice. Modern guidebooks do not identify it.

• record drawings
• dessins de détail

Graphite, with some pen and brown ink

secondary support: 41.4 x 28.5 cm sheet: 32.0 x 26.6 cm

DR1990:0053

• line drawing

• sketch profile (orthographic drawing)
• sketch elevation (drawing)

inscribed - by the draughtsman, in graphite, or pen and brown ink, l.c.: "Fir cone dogtooth / Armour. / armour / hair flowing / child swathed / b bands of black & white & diamonds / eyes painted. / Sword not seen from below / Tomb of Arnoldo - in the Frari. / The outside interval a. always the same. / but b and c. alternate with each other in side; other comments in graphite and pen and brown ink.

Venice; Italy;

• architecture

• tomb