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Photograph of Turner's "Glacier and Source of the Arveron, going up to the Mer de Glace" L. Caldesi & Co
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Details
- Artist/maker
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L. Caldesi & Co (photographer)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print mounted on engraved wove paper
- Dimensions
- 182 x 266 mm (print); 321 x 362 mm (mount)
- Associated people
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London Paul and Dominic Colnaghi and Co. (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Alps › Mont Blanc › Mer de Glace › Mer de Glace (subject)
- Europe › Arve › Arve (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, all on the mount below the photograph:
centre: PHOTOGRAPHED BY L. CALDESI & CO. 13. PALL MALL EAST. | THE FARNLEY HALL COLLECTION OF TURNER DRAWINGS. | In the possession of F.H. Fawkes, Esqr.e. | PUBLISHED BY P. & D. COLNAGHI, SCOTT & CO. 13, PALL MALL EAST
bottom left: No. 17 [the 'No.' engraved, '17' in graphite]
bottom right: Entered at Stationers Hall.
On the back of the mount:
top centre, in graphite: E285
top centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate rectangular paper label, in ink: Photh. from TURNER'S 'source of the Arveiron'. | Drawing of 1803, now at Farnley. The ice fractures, drawn in clear blue, are too pale in photh.
- 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.285
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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, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. XII.7.I
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 285
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. 285
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)
7 I Source of the Arveron. Study of rolled granite. (Turner) at Farnley. P -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
285. Source of the Arveron. Study of rolled granite. (Turner), at Farnley. P
