Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
Items marked 'M' are drawings "by my own Hand" (by Ruskin), P are photographs, E engravings and A by Ruskin's Assistant, Arthur Burgess.
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Photograph of Velázquez's "Aesop" anonymous Spanish
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Ruskin text
R|123} An old Intendant. Portrait by Velasquez. The most wonderful piece of realistic art I know of in the world. P. -
Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous Spanish (photographer)after Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599 - 1660)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 311 x 161 mm (print); 359 x 209 mm (mount)
- Inscription
- Within the photograph, bottom right, a blind stamp: CUADROS DEL RE MUSEO [arranged in an oval; within the text the initials:] B.S.M.
On the back of the mount:
right, towards bottom, in graphite: R 123
just below centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.123
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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. 123, RUD.123
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. 123
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 123
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 123
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 113
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. 123
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|123} An old Intendant. Portrait by Velasquez. The most wonderful piece of realistic art I know of in the world. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|123} An old Intendant. Portrait by Velasquez. The most wonderful piece of realistic art I know of in the world. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|123} An old Intendant. Portrait by Velasquez. The most wonderful piece of realistic art I know of in the world. P. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
113.We close our study of the xv century by a perfect example of that familiar portraiture which the splendour of its art made interesting; thereby R. properly founding the modern school of low life. Everything that the Dutch, the French and the English have done best in this kind is here anticipated and eclipsed by Velasquez.
