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

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The Courtyard of a Late Gothic Wooden House at Abbeville John Ruskin

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) (photographer)
    Object type
    photograph
    Material and technique
    albumen print
    Dimensions
    223 x 173 mm (print); 237 x 188 mm (mount)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    On the back of the mount, 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.062
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 30.H

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 62

    Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 289

    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. 62

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

Ruskin's Catalogues

  • Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)

    30 H Wooden domestic Architecture. Late Gothic, at Abbeville. P
  • Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)

    62. Wooden domestic Architecture. Late Gothic, at Abbeville. P
  • Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)

    Edu. 62 289.

    The group through which we have passed gives examples only of Foliage seen close at hand, such as the great Masters associate with Figures of the life-size. We now begin the study of Effects of Foliage diminished in distance, and which therefore cannot be completed in the Methods hitherto exhibited. I take, therefore, an actual group of leaves, vine, seen in this Photograph at a distance of about twenty-five feet, and therefore necessarily losing, if proR. perly represented, all clear lines of organization. Though the Photograph exaggerates the shadows, it gives us in other respects accurately the conditions of Mystery required at such distance; which, generally speaking, will be that of an ordinary Landscape-foreground. I take the group here shown in association with French Sculpture that the student may learn the qualities of good Painting and Sculpture at once. When he has learned to draw these leaves as the Photograph represents them, he will know how to admire the imaged leaves carved at the side of them.

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