Poster, Repressed Victorian Roman

This is a Poster. It was designed by Barry Deck. It is dated 1990–95 and we acquired it in 1996. Its medium is photomechanic reproduction and offset lithography on kodak photography paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Barry Deck. It is credited Gift of Barry Deck.

Its dimensions are

43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in. )

It has the following markings

Imprinted in gray, diagonally repeated on verso: "This Paper/ manufactured/ by KODAK".

It is inscribed

Imprinted in black, lower right corner gradually increasing in font size by each line: "Although his theories regarding architecture and scoiety have been widely/ read and accepted as seed of the modern movement, John Ruskin's bizarre/ fear of sexual activity haunted him for many years. These horrors/ although shroudded in secrecy throughout his lifetime, and by/ his principal biographers, are confirmed in a series of letters/ and diary entries dound, long after his death, under a floor/ board in his study. After marrying effie Gray, who was/ born in the room in which Ruskin's grandfather had/ committed suicide, he declared her "unfit for con-/ sumation", adding that he would reconsider when/ she reached the age of twenty-five (he was/ twenty-eight and she was nineteen), six/ years later, on her twenty-fifth birthday,/ Rushkin had still not reckoned with his/ legendary disdain for pubic hair, and told/ her that she was still unfit, citing religious reasons for his abstention. Quite/ shortly after, the marriage was annulled and Effie was remarried to the Pre-/ Raphaelite painter, John Millais."

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