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 626
se, with their THE SWALLOW. 49 outer edges parallel, or nearly so. Fig. 8 roughly shows theoutline of the bones, in this position, of one of the largerpigeons.* 75. Then Fig. 9 is (always sketched in the roughest way)the outer. Fig. 10 the inner, surface of a seagulls wing in thisposition. Next,… … Fig. 9. 76. And now, if jou will yourselves watch a few birds inflight, or opening and closing their wings to prune them, youwill soon know as much as is needful for our art purposes ;and, which is far more desirable, feel how very httle we know,to any j)urpose, of even the familiar creatures that…
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