The Stones of Venice, Vol. 3

There are many rough sketches and pictorial memoranda of the tombs, but no finished drawings have been found. Perhaps before he had gone far in the work, Ruskin decided to discuss the tombs in the more general manner adopted in the text and the labour and expense of so many illustrations may also have Induced him to that course. A mass of written material on the subject exists, however, which he preserved to gether with the ms. Of this volume. Some of this was utilised in the text; other portions are unintelligible without the intended illustrations; others, again, are only jottings and memoranda, which he did not work up; but a good deal remains which is in a finished form, and which will be found of interest, either as supplementing passages in the text, or as assisting the visitor to Venice in his examination of the monu ments. These additional passages are given in Appendix 1 l (p. The account of the Venetian Tombs culminates in the third chapter with the description of some of the latest monuments (pp. 147 and this is followed by an analysis of the Grotesque spirit, in order to illustrate further the various characters of mind which brought about the destruction of the Venetian nation. At this point, the story ends The Fall is accomplished.

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