Ruskin (John) After.

a beautifully subtle plate from ‘Examples of the Architecture of Venice’, the folio plate volume issued to accompany Ruskin’s ‘The Stones of Venice’ because he didn’t want to compromise the scale and detail of the images by reducing them to fit the text volumes. It shows a fine example of the legacy of Venice’s past at the very crossroads of East and West in depicting an original section of wall in an old palazzo, featuring aedicules in the Ottoman style, that has survived the rest of the building being expanded and redeveloped in the European christian tradition.

steel-plate mezzotint by Thomas Goff Lupton, with additional etching by Thomas Shotter Boys, printed on chine appliqué, 350 x 485 mm. (13 3/4 x 19 1/8 in), some lifting of the thin printed sheet from the support with attendant fraying and slight creasing at edges and corners, but all well ouside the image, the thin card support with an additional repair not affecting the printed sheet,