The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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Portrait Bust of John Ruskin Joseph Edgar Boehm, Sir

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    Cook and Wedderburn listed a series of works presented by Ruskin 'on the Walls of the School, or standing on cabinets, etc.' (XXI.300). These were unnumbered, and have been given arbitrary accession numbers, based on their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list, for the purposes of the current catalogue.

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Joseph Edgar Boehm, Sir (1834 - 1890) (sculptor)
    Object type
    bust
    Material and technique
    marble
    Inscription
    On the right shoulder, incised: J.E. BOEHM fecit
    on the front of the plinth, incised: RUSKIN
    Provenance

    Commissioned by a committee instigated by Henry Acland, 1880

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA2001.18
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    man

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)

    Cook, Edward T., Studies in Ruskin: Some Aspects of the Work and Teaching of John Ruskin (Orpington: George Allen, 1890), frontispiece

    Dearden, James S., John Ruskin: A Life in Pictures (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), no. 149, pp. 119-120 & 232-233, pl. 22

    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. Wall

    Warren, Jeremy, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2014)

Location

    • currently in research collection

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