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The Dryad's Toil: Oak Spray in Winter, seen in Profile John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 237 x 341 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in ink: by itself
- 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.265
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 073
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. XI.6.A
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 265
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 281
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. 265
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)
6 A Oak Spray, in Winter. Seen in profile. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
265. Oak Spray, in Winter. Seen in profile. M -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
Edu.S. 265 281.The elementary conditions of growth being mastered, the student will advance to the drawing of complete groups of moving spray. I have shown here the easiest method of expressing these and will for once say, as Albert Dürer said of his own work, that it cannot be (much) better done. I am obliged to put in the much because I missed the curves in the middle and had to rub them out and do them again, which stains the paper in that place. Such a study ought not to take more than an hour from beginning to end, supposing no mistake made.
