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Piglets in a Pig-Sty (from "Fables of Aesop and Others") Thomas Bewick
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Details
- Artist/maker
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workshop of Thomas Bewick (1753 - 1828) (designer, engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- wood-engraving and letterpress on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 25 x 48 mm (block); 71 x 108 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Verso, below centre, 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.188.d
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 187-188
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 199
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. 188
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Educational, manuscript (1878)
187-8 199.Studies of the Pig, by Bewick; entirely magnificent. See the enlargement of the little one in front of the group, second from the bottom, in ‘Aratra Pentelici.
