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Crustacea: Genus Cancer, Genus Dorippe, Genus Dormio Edward Donovan
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Edward Donovan (1768 - 1837)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour and ink on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 352 x 263 mm
- Inscription
- On the drawing, recto, all in graphite:
top centre: CRUSTACEA |Genus Cancer. - Genus Dorippe - Genus Dormio
top left: [...] | 40
top right: Pl.1.
above and to the right of the upper left-hand crab: Dorippe Facchino
below and to the right of the upper right-hand crab: Cancer fascicularis.
above the centre crab: Cancer ruricola.
to the left of the bottom crab: Dormio artip[...]
bottom right: 9 3/4 by 12 1/4
On the bottom mount, top left, written up the page, in graphite: 6.3/8 / 5
On the back of the bottom mount, top right, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, in graphite: 140
- 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.190
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References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 190
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. 190
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
