Browse: 1470 objects
© University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
- Reference URL
Actions
Finished Study of Agrimony Leaves John Ruskin
-
Details
- Artist/maker
-
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink, sepia, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 259 x 173 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
top left, in graphite (recent): Ed 255 ii
just below the image, centre, in graphite: H 2 under H 1. gold.
below: Paste this on back of | mount
bottom, written across the sheet, the lines often running obliquely: 8. Agrimony. | part of 7. enlarged. | This is the back of leaf in both 7 & 8. | The leaves are quite clean stalked | at their roots - not webbed off. | but the radical wings | come from all round | stalk - not | joined on [the final 'not' apparently struck through]
Verso:
in black ink: PARTIAL LEAF STUDY (TCENTRAL) [?]
below centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
-
Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.ED.255.b
-
Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
-
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. 068.ii
Cook, Edward T., Studies in Ruskin: Some Aspects of the Work and Teaching of John Ruskin (Orpington: George Allen, 1890), pl. XII, p. 322
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. XI.5.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 255
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. Educational no. 255
Location
-
- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
-
Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
5 D Finished Study of Agrimony leaves.M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
255. Finished Study of Agrimony leaves.M
