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The Torre Garisenda and Torre Asinelli, Bologna John Ruskin

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    As the unframed examples had not been given an order by Ruskin, they have been given arbitrary accession numbers based upon their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list of the unframed objects ( XXI.308) for the purposes of the current catalogue.

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    graphite and bodycolour on grey wove paper
    Dimensions
    230 x 152 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, all in graphite (Ruskin):
    bottom, left of centre: blue sky sun behind Top of Tower.
    bottom right: Bolognia [sic] . June 15 th . | Tall Tower red brick. pinkish (short do d purple | green [...]

    Verso:
    right of centre, in graphite: Bell MS p308 Pkt A.1.(lower)
    centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    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.UF.05
  • 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. 265

    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. Unframed

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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