Traceries and Mouldings from Rouen and Salisbury

John Ruskin

R. P. Cuff, engraver

1855

7x 4 3/32 inches

Plate VII, The Seven Lamps of Architecture in Works, 8.165.

According to the "Index to the Plates" (8.xvii), Ruskin refers to this plate on the following passages, which are quoted below:

  • 1. Panel decoration of buttresses of North door of the Cathedral of Rouen (p. 165)
  • 2.Mouldings of the quatrefoil above fig 1 (p. 166)
  • 3. Section explaining fig 1. (p. 165)
  • 4. Detail of moulding in fig 1. (p. 165)
  • 5. Dog-tooth moulding from Salisbury cathedral (p. 172)
  • Related material

  • Photograph of Fig. 1's original carving
  • Photograph of Fig. 5's original carving
  • Ruskin's watercolor of the entrance to the South Transept, Rouen Cathedral
  • Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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