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The Golden Iris (Iris Pseudo-acorus) (from the Floræ Danicæ) anonymous Danish
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Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous Danish (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 337 x 211 mm (plate); 365 x 223 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate:
top right corner, engraved, above a graphite guide-line: Flora Danica Tab. CCCCXCIV.
bottom, towards left, in ink, within ruled graphite horizontal lines: Iris Pseudo-acorus
outside the plate:
top left, in ink, within a rectangular box, crossed out: R./226
just to the right, in ink, crossed out: 226
just to the right of this, in ink: R. | 228
top centre, in ink, crossed out: 39 . 734/V
top right corner, in ink, crossed out: 494
bottom margin, from centre to right, in graphite, below a graphite guide-line: Scratch out Ink. Frame here
bottom right, in ink: Baxter. 1.82
Verso, bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, in graphite: R | 228
- 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.228
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References in which this object is cited include:
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. 228, RUD.228
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 228
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 228
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. 228
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. 228
Oeder, George Christian, et al., Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniæ et Norvegiæ, in ducatibus Slesvici et Holsatiæ, ... Floræ Danicæ nomine inscriptum, 23 (Copenhagen: Claudius Philibertus, 1764-1883), vol. III (1770), pl. 494
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|228} The Golden Iris. Floræ Danicæ. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|228} The Golden Iris. Floræ Danicæ.
Secondly, for the group of Irids.
R. 228. The Golden Iris; (Water-flag.)Here in Oxford, where it grows everywhere near us, we must take this for our own type of the Fleur-de-lys, and the rather that I believe this to be Pindar’s water-flag, the true Ion. The plate is from the Floræ Danicæ.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|228} The Golden Iris. FFloræ Danicæ.
Secondly, for the group of Irids.
R.228. The Golden Iris; (Water-flag.)Here in Oxford, where it grows everywhere near us, we must take this for our own type of the Fleur-de-lys, and the rather that I believe this to be Pindar’s water-flag, the true Ion. The plate is from the Floræ Danicæ.
