Sunlight pours across golden-tan colored buildings overgrown with verdant plants in this horizontal watercolor. The main two-story building is to our right on the far side of a grassy lawn. A vine creeps across its façade, and a triangular structure projects up over the front of the building, which faces away from us. A high wall extends to or left and then comes toward us. Copper-brown-leaved trees and dark green plants grow on both sides of the wall and over a shallowly peaked roof, which suggests a more substantial structure that has been lost in the growth. Slate-blue hills are glimpsed…
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The Garden of San Miniato near Florence

John Ruskin (British, 1819 - 1900)

1845

Medium
watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
Overall: 34.2 x 49.2 cm (13 7/16 x 19 3/8 in.) ; mat: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
Culture
British
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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