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Mezzotint of Turner's "Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire" J Bromley
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Details
- Object type
- Material and technique
- stipple etching, engraving and mezzotint, with graphite additions, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 195 x 251 mm (plate); 244 x 329 mm (sheet)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › West Yorkshire › Leeds › Leeds › Kirkstall › Kirkstall Abbey › Kirkstall Abbey (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, in ink:
bottom right: 6
just below and to the right, struck out in ink: 4[...]
Verso:
top left, in graphite: after JMWT E.113. 63 1/8
bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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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.113
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 295
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 295
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
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. 113 & Rudimentary no. 295
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 113
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 63
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 295, RUD.295
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 108
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
63 Kirkstall Abbey. Mezzotint after Turner. E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
113. Kirkstall Abbey. Mezzotint after Turner. E -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
113 108.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.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|295} Kirkstall Abbey. Engraved in mezzotint, after Turner. T. Lupton. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|295} Kirkstall Abbey. Engraved in mezzotint, after Turner. T. Lupton. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|295} Kirkstall Abbey. Engraved in mezzotint, after Turner. T. Lupton.
