Ruskin's first catalogue of 300 works for the instruction of undergraduates and his notes on the use of particular examples.
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.
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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. 266
The same bough, foreshortened. In work for practice every bough drawn should be thus represented in profile and front; the latter being of extreme importance because the nearest branches of a tree will always be so seen, and in a branch, as in a boat, the more or less foreshortened views are always the prettiest. [The stains on the paper here are intentional; I wanted more shade to throw up the light touches and liked it better irregularly put on]. Both this and the last example were admirably engraved by Mr. Armitage in Modern Painters.