Art, literature & history
Ornamental Study with Acanthus Motif for "The Stones of Venice"
1849
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with watercolor and graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 20.1 x 16.6 cm (7 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1995.52.158
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Ruskin. Ornamental Study with Acanthus Motif for "The Stones of Venice". John Ruskin; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Ruskin,_Ornamental_Study_with_Acanthus_Motif_for_%22The_Stones_of_Venice%22,_1849,_NGA_76140.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Ornamental Study with Acanthus Motif for "The Stones of Venice" — John Ruskin. 1849.
Medium: pen and brown ink with watercolor and graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 20.1 x 16.6 cm (7 15/16 x 6 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1995.52.158. Gift of William B. O'Neal.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.