Art, literature & history
The Garden of San Miniato near Florence
1845
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper
- 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.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.88.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Ruskin. The Garden of San Miniato near Florence. 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,_The_Garden_of_San_Miniato_near_Florence,_1845,_NGA_72870.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Garden of San Miniato near Florence — John Ruskin. 1845.
Medium: watercolor and pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on wove paper laid down on thick, white paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): 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.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.88.1. Patrons' Permanent Fund.
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.