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Sculpture on the south-west (or "Fig-Tree") Angle of the Ducal Palace, Venice John Ruskin

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    ink, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on off-white wove paper
    Dimensions
    131 x 175 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, all in ink:
    below the middle of the carving's bottom: a b
    below, to the right: J. Ruskin : . 52.
    bottom, centre: Sculpture under the feet of Angel Gabriel; Ducal Palace main angle. | Noblest style of 14th century sculpture in Venice. | note the magnificent and delicate curvature
    on the right edge, running up the sheet from the bottom: the dark interstices at unequal length - &c -

    Verso, top left, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    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.218
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 044

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. IX.2.D

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 218

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 25

    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. 218

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

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