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Sketch of one of the Pinnacles and the Statue of Saint George from the Tomb of Cansignorio della Scala, Verona John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 340 x 110 mm
- Associated place
- Inscription
- Recto, all in ink:
bottom left: + | 7 | R
along the bottom: Niche of tomb of Can Signorio. Verona.
- 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.097.b
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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. 036
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. 97.b, RUD.097.b
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 97
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. 97
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 97.Details of the niches in the earlier and later tombs shown in No. 96. They are both engraved in the illustrations to The Stones of Venice. The statues have fallen from the niches of the older tomb; the sculpture in the other, of which the St. George is an average example, is of the Pisan school, but of no particular merit.
