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Bradda Head from Port Erin (Leaf from a Sketch-Book of Manx Scenes)
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Curator’s description:
Description
This drawing was not catalogued explicitly by Ruskin, although it must be one of the 'series of pencil sketches in the Isle of Man' 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.
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Details
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 92 x 159 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › Isle of Man › Port Erin › Port Erin (subject)
- Europe › United Kingdom › Isle of Man › Bradda Head › Bradda Head (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, written up the right edge, in graphite:
Roof of farthest House, whitewashed, fields on Head drab green & buff [...] | Sand grey drab dark reflexions, dark drab, Road, grey drab, pathes [sic] of grass & weeds | among the rubbish. Thatch on Cottage, dirty drab, some of the ropes near | Sea grey blue into green into drab green | Port H Erin Bradda Head, Port Erin, Sep 23d. 1878 | 12 a.m. moderate Breeze, in shore ['Port H Erin' struck through]
Verso, bottom left, in graphite: Long 39
- Provenance
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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.39
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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
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- Western Art Print Room
