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Drawing of a red Parrot and Plant from Carpaccio's "Saint George baptises the Selenites" John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Vittore Carpaccio (1460/06 - 1525/06)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 284 x 200 mm
- Inscription
- Verso:
below centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below and to the right, in graphite: E 161
On a separate, small, square card label, in ink: 62
- 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.161
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 147
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 111
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 161
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 190
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. 161
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)
111 Red Parrot. Study after Carpaccio: real size. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
161. Red Parrot. Study after Carpaccio: real size. M -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
190.St. George's bird, the Porphyrio, from Carpaccio's picture in the church of San Giorgio de' Schiavoni. at Venice . See my Shrine of the Slave, and Mr. Anderson's following essay, The Place of Dragons.
This series is unarranged after this, except only 198, 199, 200.
