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Photograph of Velázquez's "Portrait of Donna Margarita of Austria on Horseback" anonymous Spanish

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    anonymous Spanish (photographer)
    Object type
    photograph
    Material and technique
    albumen print
    Dimensions
    271 x 272 mm
    Inscription
    On the recto:
    lower left, either painted on the negative or on the painting and printing as white: 241
    bottom left corner, a blind stamp: CUADROS DEL R.L MUSEO [arranged in an oval within a border of dots, the beginning and end of the text separated at the right by a star; within the text is a monogram containing an 'M']

    Verso:
    towards lower right, in graphite: S.45
    lower centre, 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.STD.045
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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Standard no. 45

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Standard no. 45

    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. Standard no. 45

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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Ruskin's Catalogues

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