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Drawing of Andrea Busati's "Saint Mark Enthroned with Saints Andrew and Francis" Charles Fairfax Murray

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    This drawing was not catalogued by Ruskin, but was presumably one of the 'several water-colours of Venetian pictures by Mr. C. Fairfax Murray' listed as being in the Long Cabinet by Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.306). The imprecision of Cook and Wedderburn's description of the cabinet mean that it has been given an arbitrary number within the cabinet for the purposes of the current catalogue.

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 - 1919)
    after Andrea Busati (active 1503 - 1529)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour over graphite on wove paper
    Dimensions
    193 x 253 mm
    Inscription
    Recto, within Saint Mark's book, in watercolour: PAX TI|BI [...]

    Verso:
    centre right, in graphite: j
    bottom left, in graphite: Long 1 - Busati
    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.LC.01
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    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. Long Cabinet

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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