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Studies of the Head and the Bill of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Henry Stacy Marks

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Henry Stacy Marks (1829 - 1898)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on pale brown wove paper
    Dimensions
    143 x 128 mm
    Inscription
    Recto:
    above the study of the bill, top towards right, in graphite: nostril
    right, above centre, in graphite: Goss. Keeper since 1829.
    bottom centre, in ink: Suplhure-Crested | Cockatoo
    bottom right, in ink: ZOO | OCT | 17 | 77
    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.RUD.189
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    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. Rudimentary no. 189

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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