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.
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Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 295
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Kirkstall Abbey in the distance; engraving from one of the most exquisite of Turner's river subjects . But observe that Turner's repretitions of any subject are always continuations of his E poem upon it. The sun has set now, the ruin is seen in the distance against the twilight, and Maid Mary is calling the cattle home. I cannot imagine that the fragment of the tower projects in reality to such an extent. It never caught my eye till my friend noticed it, but observe what a curious illustration it is of what I was just saying of Turner's mind being set on the stability of the grand old masonry.