The Old Ducal Palace, Ferrara

Samuel Prout

Pencil on paper

14 x 10 inches

Source: Ruskin, facing 14.426

Although the Ducal Palace provides the setting for Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess," these lines do not come from that poem, nor from Samuel Rogers's Italy, which seemed a likely source. — George P. Landow

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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