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Drawing from a Photograph of Part of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Anonymous Italian (Anonymous, Italian) (photographer)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 494 x 366 mm (sight size)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Pisa › Pisa › Santa Maria della Spina › Santa Maria della Spina (subject)
- Inscription
- Top right corner, in graphite: Not to be [...]
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; removed by Ruskin; sent by Ruskin to the Museum of the Guild of Saint George, Walkley, 1888.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- CGSG.R.0051
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Morley, Catherine W., John Ruskin: Late Work 1870-1890. The Museum and Guild of St. George: An Educational Experiment (New York: Garland Publishing, 1984)
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Reference no. 80
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Reference no. 80
Location
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- Collection of the Guild of St George, Museums Sheffield
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
80 Part of the Chapel of the Thorn. Pisa. (This year, 1872, in ruins, having been defaced in order to widen the quay.)
