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Boats on a Beach Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- 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.126
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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. 126, RUD.126
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. 126
Herrmann, Luke, Ruskin and Turner: A Study of Ruskin as a Collector of Turner, Based on His Gifts to the University of Oxford: Incorporating a Catalogue Raisonné of the Turner Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (London: Faber & Faber, 1968), no. 59
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. 126
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 126
Herrmann, Luke, and Colin Harrison, J. M. W. Turner, Ashmolean Museum Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), no. 2
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 128
Ruskin, John, ‘Notes By Mr. Ruskin ... on His Drawings by the Late J. M. W. Turner, R. A., [and] on His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 13, no. 6 = XIII.416
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 126
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|126} Boats on Beach. Early drawing in pure water-colour. Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|126} Boats on Beach. Early drawing in pure water-colour. Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|126} Boats on Beach. Early drawing in pure water-colour. Turner. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
now 126 128.Study, of consummate excellence, in Turner’s early manner: the sky already nearly as beautiful as it can be, and the drawing of the boat in flat tints an exercise of incomparable value. I hope that notes on R. this drawing will be furnished to us by Mr. Kingsley, who knows Turner’s work at this period far better than I do. As an example of Turner’s minute care see the teeth of the saw in the hand of the right-hand figure, the twisting of the boat’s cable and the blocks in the halyards of the dark sail in the distance.
