Bound in coloured card covers, 120 pages, 7 3/8 x 4 3/4 (19.4 x 12 cm) Recto pages marked by Ruskin 1 - 60 on green lined paper. Pages 36 and 37 torn out. (1 1/2 pages missing at the end) Possibly begun December 1849. (Hewison (1978) p.60) Sold at Sothebys 24th July 1930 Lot 115 No 6. Purchased by J. H. Whitehouse (see Woolford (1972) pp.193-246). This notebook is called ‘Doges Palace book’ at Notebook M p.162.
The Lower Arcade Capitals of the Ducal Palace which Ruskin does not discuss in Palace Book are No 1 (36) The Growth of Man; No 5 (32) Emperors; No 6 (31) Female Heads; and No 24 (13) Marriage.
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