St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 572
o these plates, be-cause, though I distinctly stated in tbe preface that they, to-gether with the 12th, 20th, 34th, and 37th, were executed onthe steel by my own hand, (the use of the dry point in theforegrounds of the 12th and 21st plates being moreover whollydifferent from the common processes of… … Fig. 2. omitted on the right-hand side, havingbeen too much buried among the realleaves to be drawn. Fig. 3 shows the intended general ef-fect of its masses, the five-leaved and six-leaved flowers beiuG^ clearly distinguish-able at any distance. Fig. 3. Fig. 4 is its profile, rather carefully drawn…
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