Distant View of St. Peter's from Behind a Fountain
This vignette offers us a distant view of St. Peter's with a fountainin the foreground, a proof of one of 43 wood engravings that Ruzicka made to illustrate "Fountains of Papal Rome," 1915; in the latter it appears on page xi, before the Introduction.
Ruzicka went to Rome in 1913 with the manuscript of Mrs. Charles MacVeagh's "Fountains of Papal Rome" in hand as a guide. When published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1915 the book contained fourteen full-page images and twenty-nine page headings and vignettes. The artist later described the book as a "quite remarkable work...still the most authoritative book there is on the subject in the English language."
Ruzicka went to Rome in 1913 with the manuscript of Mrs. Charles MacVeagh's "Fountains of Papal Rome" in hand as a guide. When published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York in 1915 the book contained fourteen full-page images and twenty-nine page headings and vignettes. The artist later described the book as a "quite remarkable work...still the most authoritative book there is on the subject in the English language."
Artwork Details
- Title: Distant View of St. Peter's from Behind a Fountain
- Series/Portfolio: Fountains of Papal Rome
- Artist: Rudolph Ruzicka (American (born Czechoslovakia), Kourim, Bohemia 1883–1978 Hanover, New Hampshire)
- Author: Related author Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh (American, 1860–1948)
- Date: 1914
- Medium: Wood engraving, proof
- Dimensions: Image: 1 5/16 × 2 3/8 in. (3.4 × 6 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.2 × 15.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Rudolph Ruzicka, 1918
- Object Number: 18.25.51
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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