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The Upper Façade of San Michele in Foro, Lucca John Joseph Laing

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    Cook and Wedderburn listed a series of works presented by Ruskin 'on the Walls of the School, or standing on cabinets, etc.' (XXI.300). These were unnumbered, and have been given arbitrary accession numbers, based on their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list, for the purposes of the current catalogue.

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour and bodycolour over graphite, the building cut out and stuck onto another sheet of paper
    Dimensions
    1350 x 940 mm (sight size)
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, in red bodycolour:
    bottom left: Church of San. Michele, at Lucca. | Upper Façade.
    bottom right: J.J. Laing. 1861.
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.WAL.05
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    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. Wall

Location

    • currently in research collection

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