The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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A Frontispiece (at Farnley Hall) Turner

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

Ruskin's Catalogues

  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)

    R|14} Drawing of armour, standards, and documents at Farnley Hall. Turner.
  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)

    R|14} Drawing of armour, standards, and documents, at Farnley Hall. Turner.
  • Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)

    R|14} Drawing of armour, standards, and documents, at Farnley Hall. Turner.
  • Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)

    remains 14.

    An example of Turner’s early heraldic work. Examine with lens the beautifully legible signature of Oliver Cromwell on the smallest of the fallen papers; also under the helmet the writing of the pedigree of the Farnley family. As brush-work, the sentence they are sometimes, and the perfectly free Hawkesworth and Richmond will give a general idea of the ease of Turner’s hand in minute lines. The colour of the shields on the principal scroll, and the lion rampant on the standard of Fairfax are to be copied by all students as soon as they have attained some facility in water-colour. The lion being executed with a wash of grey over the underlying vermilion bars, and the roughnesses given by only one process of retouching, with a scratch or two of the knife to conquer the vermilion, is of extremest value as a water-colour exercise. The drawing once belonged to M.r. Fawkes of Farnley and had been frightfully R. injured by ill usage on the left hand side of it before it came into my possession.

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