RUSKIN, JOHN. An original pen and ink drawing with white heightening of architectural details of the Palazzo Agostini, Pisa. Dated 27th May 1845. 240 x 170 mm. (9½ x 6 5/8 in.), on gray-green paper; matted and framed . Inscribed in pen by Ruskin at the lower left: "Architecture of Pisan Palace, 27th May, 1845, All in Brick", with notes in pencil on color and scale throughout. In 1845 Ruskin made his first tour of Italy unaccompanied by his parents. Passing through France, the young man reached Tuscany, visiting the major towns of the region. May found Ruskin in Pisa. Much of his visit was ruined by poor weather, the rain not letting up until the 27th. On the following day, Ruskin wrote his father about his last drawing expedition in Pisa. "I had a nice piece of work to get my old house [the Palazzo Agostini] yesterday...but I have got it in spite of all -- a dashing sketch of its shadows, and architectural ones from which I could build, of its details -- the lowest I have down to the smallest rosettes, and the uppermost I should have had if I could have got a ladder, but I hunted all over the town and couldn't get one!" (Shapiro, editor, Ruskin in Italy, letters to his Parents, 1845 . London, 1972, pp. 84-85). Dating from the early fifteenth century, the Palazzo Agostini is today the last remaining example in Pisa of exterior sculptural decoration in terracotta, a style once common in the town. Drawing for Ruskin was a way of analyzing architecture. In that manner, this work and others of the period are perhaps best understood as part of the mental process that led to his Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. Provenance : George T. Goodspeed.
RUSKIN, JOHN. An original pen and ink drawing with white heightening of architectural details of the Palazzo Agostini, Pisa. Dated 27th May 1845. 240 x 170 mm. (9½ x 6 5/8 in.), on gray-green paper; matted and framed . Inscribed in pen by Ruskin at the lower left: "Architecture of Pisan Palace, 27th May, 1845, All in Brick", with notes in pencil on color and scale throughout. In 1845 Ruskin made his first tour of Italy unaccompanied by his parents. Passing through France, the young man reached Tuscany, visiting the major towns of the region. May found Ruskin in Pisa. Much of his visit was ruined by poor weather, the rain not letting up until the 27th. On the following day, Ruskin wrote his father about his last drawing expedition in Pisa. "I had a nice piece of work to get my old house [the Palazzo Agostini] yesterday...but I have got it in spite of all -- a dashing sketch of its shadows, and architectural ones from which I could build, of its details -- the lowest I have down to the smallest rosettes, and the uppermost I should have had if I could have got a ladder, but I hunted all over the town and couldn't get one!" (Shapiro, editor, Ruskin in Italy, letters to his Parents, 1845 . London, 1972, pp. 84-85). Dating from the early fifteenth century, the Palazzo Agostini is today the last remaining example in Pisa of exterior sculptural decoration in terracotta, a style once common in the town. Drawing for Ruskin was a way of analyzing architecture. In that manner, this work and others of the period are perhaps best understood as part of the mental process that led to his Seven Lamps of Architecture of 1849. Provenance : George T. Goodspeed.
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