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A Candle John Ruskin

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    graphite on paper
    Dimensions
    254 x 191 mm (approx.; sight size)
    Provenance

    Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; removed by Ruskin in 1887; listed in 1906 as having been removed from the Drawing School.

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    RUD.301
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    candle

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872)

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 301 (on p. 46)

    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. Rudimentary no. 301 (on p. 256)

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Arts and Humanities Research Council

University of Oxford

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

Ashmolean

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