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Drawing of two illuminated Initials from thirteenth century French Manuscripts John Joseph Laing
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Details
- Artist/maker
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, boldycolour and gold paint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 348 x 230 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom, just left of centre, in graphite: Esdras I.I
Verso, in graphite:
top right: E 207 or 208
top 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.208
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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), p. 201
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. IX.1.G
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 208
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 20
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. 208
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)
1 G Finest Style of 14th Century in Illumination. (J. S. Laing). -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
208. Finest Style of 14th Century in Illumination. (J. S. Laing). -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
lllumination of early fourteenth century. Finest style of that time; partly unfinished; showing the way in which the work was executed by the early illuminators.
