With Agnew's, London;

from where acquired by the present owner

In 1840, following a bout of poor health, Ruskin was encouraged by his doctors to take a holiday in Italy. In September of that year he set out with his parents on a tour which was to last nine months. During the course of his travels, Ruskin made a series of large drawings on blue paper, near Rome, in the eternal city itself, in Naples, at Amalfi, Salerno 🌄and elsewhere. The present drawing shows the Chigi Palace and Bernini’s church of Santa Maria dell’ Assunzione, at Ariccia in the Roman Campagna.