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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 539

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f the lower band. Icould not succeed in expressing the variation and chequeringof color in marble, by real tints in the print; and have beencontent, therefore, to give them in line engraving. The dif-ferent triangles are, altogether, of ten kinds : a. Pure white marble with sculptured surface (as… … MUBANO. 45 & A plain triangle of greenish black marble, now perhaps consid-erably paler in color than when first employed (as the second andsixth of the upper series of Plate III.). d. Cast red brick triangle, with a diamond inlaid of the above-menJtioned black marble (as the fourth in the…

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