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Seven Studies of Birds Henry Stacy Marks

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    This drawing was not catalogued explicitly by Ruskin, although it may have been one of the studies of birds by Marks which he mentioned under No. 168 in his 1878 catalogue of the Educational Series. It was presumably one of the 'eleven studies of birds ("Zoo, 1877") by H.S. Marks, R.A.' 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
    Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    black chalk and bodycolour over graphite on brown wove paper
    Dimensions
    277 x 176 mm
    Inscription
    Recto, a couple of notes, all in graphite:
    just above and to the right of the upper left-hand study: [...]
    top, right of centre: [...] redder
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford)

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.LC.12
  • 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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