lii INTRODUCTION

Plate E (“The Vestibule”) is from a drawing in water-colour (13½x9¼) in the collection of Sir John Simon, K.C.B.

In addition to these photogravure plates, there are in the preceding pages (xxxiv., xxxv.) reproductions by line-process (in the size of the originals) of Ruskin’s drawings for two of the original woodcuts (figs. 7 and 18 in the text), with Ruskin’s corrections, in the latter case, for the engraver.

Another facsimile is of the cover of the early editions (below, opposite p. liv.). The figure at the top of the back of the cover is of course the Lion of St. Mark’s. The figure on the side of the cover is the design of a Byzantine sculpture on St. Mark’s; it is engraved as Fig. 1, Plate 11, in vol. ii. of Stones of Venice (described in ch. v. § 27). The stamped frame follows various Venetian mouldings.

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