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Two Studies of Architecture at Chillon (Leaf from a Sketch-Book) Anonymous, Continental

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    This drawing was not catalogued explicitly by Ruskin or Cook and Wedderburn, although it has been preserved alongside other objects from the Long Cabinet in the Museum's collection. It has been given an arbitrary number within the cabinet for the purposes of the current catalogue.

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Anonymous, Continental (Anonymous, Continental)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    pen and ink and white chalk on grey wove paper
    Dimensions
    81 x 175 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, in ink, bottom left: Chillon - Aug - 19 -

    Verso, centre, in graphite: Long 29

    On a separate small paper label, in graphite: Long 29
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.LC.29
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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