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Photograph of Zipporah, from Botticelli's fresco of "The Temptation of Moses" in the Sistine Chapel Fratelli Alinari

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Fratelli Alinari (active 1854 - 1920) (photographer)
    after Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444/1445 - 1510)
    Object type
    photograph
    Material and technique
    albumen print
    Dimensions
    433 x 327 mm (Print); 447 x 347 mm (mount)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, within the photograph, bottom right, presumably written on the negative and so printing white: 10018

    On the back of the mount:
    top left, in ink A | 2
    towards bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
    just below, in graphite: Ref 108
    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.REF.108.a
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    painting

    woman

  • 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. Reference no. 108

Location

    • currently out on loan

Arts and Humanities Research Council

University of Oxford

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

Ashmolean

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