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The Gryphon bearing the south Shaft of the west Entrance of the Duomo, Verona John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and pen and ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 440 x 294 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Verona › Verona › Verona Duomo › Verona Duomo (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto: bottom centre, in graphite: The moulding of the white central column same as that of gate
bottom right, in ink: + J. Ruskin
just below, in ink: 17 | R
just to the right, in ink, crossed out in ink: 14.
just to the right, in ink: Verona. May 11th
just below and to the right, in ink: Porch of Duomo.
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.ED.081
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 026
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 35.B
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 81
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. Educational no. 81
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
35 B Gryphon bearing south shaft of West entrance of Duomo, Verona. M. -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
81. Gryphon bearing south shaft of west entrance of Duomo, Verona. M
