The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)

Ruskin's revised catalogue of 300 works for the instruction of undergraduates and his notes on the use of particular examples.

Educational 2 cover

Catalogue of the Educational Series / 5. Landscape (Nos. 101—125) Elementary Illustrations of Landscape

    • Ruskin, John - Etching of Turner's Drawing of "Rietz, near Saumur" 101. Etching from Turner’s drawing of the banks of the Loire (in the Oxford Gallery) . M
    • Turner, Joseph Mallord William - The Ruined Abbey at Haddington 102. Ruined abbey. Early unfinished drawing by Turner.
    • Lory, Gabriel Ludwig, and Mathias Gabriel Lory - View of the Beautiful Island (Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore) 103. Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore. Old coloured print. E
    • Lory, Gabriel Ludwig, and Mathias Gabriel Lory - View from Stresa of the Beautiful Island (Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore) 104. Isola Bella, from Stresa. Old coloured print. E
    • Gilpin, William - Early Morn 105. Early Morning. Old print after Turner, touched, I believe, by himself. E
    • Gilpin, William - Freaky Sunset 106. Sunset. Old Print after Turner. E
    • 107. Evening closing in. Old Print after TurnerE
    • 108. Moonlight. Old Print after Turner. E
    • Burghers, Michael - Bicester House 109. Mr. John Coker’s Country Seat, at Burcester-King’s-end . Old print. E
    • Ruskin, John - Drawing of Turner's "Hospice of the Great Saint Bernard" 110. The Great St. Bernard. Fac-simile of Turner’s vignette for Rogers’s Italy. M
    • Prout, Samuel - Kirkstall Abbey 111. Kirkstall Abbey. Pencil sketch. (Prout).
    • Turner, Joseph Mallord William - Liber studiorum - Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey 112. Kirkstall Abbey. ( Turner’s Liber Studiorum). E
    • Bromley, J. - Mezzotint of Turner's "Kirkstall Abbey, on the River Aire" 113. Kirkstall Abbey. Mezzotint after Turner. E
    • 114. Fribourg, Switzerland. Pen sketch, with old print beneath.M
    • Née, François Denis, after Alexis Nicolas Perignon I - View of the City of Luzern, taken on the Lake, near the Tuilerie 115. Lucerne, Switzerland. Old print. E
    • Ruskin, John - The Kapellbrücke at Luzern 116. The old Bridge at Lucerne. M
    • 117. Two views of Lucerne from above. M
    • Née, François Denis, after Alexis Nicolas Perignon I - The Castle of the Baron of Zurlauben 118. The Baron’s House at Zug. Old print. E
    • 119.
    • unidentified - Photograph of Holbein's Drawing of a Woman from Basel, turned to the left 120. Sketch of costume, in pen, washed with sepia. Photograph from Holbein’s drawing at Basle. P
    • Dürer, Albrecht - Landscape with Cannon 121. The Cannon. View to the north from the ramparts of Nuremberg (the sea introduced conventionally). (Dürer). Engraving on copper, of peculiar execution with blunt line.
    • Ruskin, John - Basle, with Outline of the Mountains of the Black Forest 122. Basle, with outline of the mountains of the Black Forest, sketched in 1858. The view is now entirely destroyed, by the suburban villas of ironmasters, but the distant town looked then as it did when Holbein lived in it.
    • Dürer, Albrecht - Justice. Death, Cupid, and Fortune 123. Justice.Death, Cupid, and Fortune. Line engraving. (Dürer).
    • 124. Two of the subjects of the Lesser Passion. Line engraving, perfect in execution. (Dürer).
    • Dürer, Albrecht - The Whore of Babylon 125. The worship of Pleasure. From series illustrating Apocalypse. Wood engraving. (Dürer).

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