Distant View of St. Peter's from Behind a Fountain
Rudolph Ruzicka American, born Czechoslovakia
Related author Fanny Davenport Rogers MacVeagh American
Not on view
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."
