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Study of the second Pier from the Left on the Portico of the Duomo of San Martino, Lucca John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI. 34 n. 2), 'The Catalogue contained no Nos. 84-100, these examples having been added at various times after its issue.'
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 356 x 287 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Lucca › Lucca › Lucca Duomo › Lucca Duomo (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom right, in graphite: A . bottom
Verso:
near bottom, left of centre, in graphite (recent): Ref 86 Lower | "Lucca San Martino" on mount
just to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: M. 2.
- Provenance
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Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.REF.086.b
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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. 289
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. 86
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
