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The Alpine Sawwort (Serratula alpina) (from the Floræ Danicæ) anonymous Danish
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Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous Danish (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 237 x 174 mm (plate); 373 x 224 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate:
top left, in ink: 27
top right, engraved: Flora Danica Tab.XXXVII.
outside the plate:
top left, in ink: R | 244
top centre, in ink, same hand: 27.
just to the right, in ink: 61
top right, in ink: 37
below the plate, right, in ink: Conf. 25.
below the plate, centre, in ink, between two lightly-ruled graphite guide-lines: Serratula Alpina
Verso, lower centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, recto:
in graphite: R | 244
Verso: beneath a piece of gummed tape (removed when the tape was removed): R244
- 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.RUD.244
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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), cat. Rudimentary no. 244, RUD.244
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 244
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 244
Oeder, George Christian, et al., Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniæ et Norvegiæ, in ducatibus Slesvici et Holsatiæ, ... Floræ Danicæ nomine inscriptum, 23 (Copenhagen: Claudius Philibertus, 1764-1883), vol. I (1766), pl. 37
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. Rudimentary no. 244
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 244
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
