Footnote 9, Chapter 7, of the author's Ruskin's Poetic Argument: The Design of the Major Works, which Cornell University Press published in 1985. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
indicates a link to material not in the original print version. [GPL]. Ruskin's drawing of the servant was displayed recently at the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, with the following comment in the catalog: "Although Ruskin relates his enthusiasm at his 'discovery' of this work in 1858, in Turin this copy with its flat dead washes and unconvincing reproduction of Veronese's bravura highlights betrays nothing of that excitement. Only the pattern of the brocade and the minute delineation of the parrots with their balefully glittering eyes seem to have engaged his interest" (Drawings of John Ruskin, An Exhibition Organized by Gail S. Weinberg [Cambridge: Fogg Museum, 1979] 24).
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