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.
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Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 274
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The Greek Narcissus, wild in all pastures of the mountain-land in Greece, Italy & Switzerland. The upper study of it is painted as carefully as I could, determining the outline only with one wash of brown, and this Drawing should be copied by all students.