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John Ruskin

Verona, Can Grande Tomb, Madonna and Heraldic Dog

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January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

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25,000 - 35,000 USD

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John Ruskin

London 1819 - 1900 Brantwood

Verona, Can Grande Tomb, Madonna and Heraldic Dog


Watercolor over pencil, heightened with white

230 by 198 mm; 9 by 7⅞ in.

Bequeathed upon the artist's death to Joan Ruskin Severn, née Agnew (1846-1924);
T.F. Taylor, by 1904;
with Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich 
London, Royal Institution, Drawings and Photographs Illustrative of the Architecture of Verona, February 1870, no. 24 (as The Two Dogs);
Manchester City Art Gallery, Ruskin Exhibition, 1904, no. 316, as The Tomb of Can Grande, Verona, lent by T.F. Taylor.
E.T. Cook and A. Wedderburn (eds.), The Complete Works of John Ruskin (Library Edition), vol. 19, London, 1905, pl. 24 (as an illustration to Ruskin's lecture of 1870, 'Verona and its Rivers');
Library Edition, vol. 38, London 1912, ‘Catalogue of Drawings’, p. 302, no. 2058