Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
Unpublished manuscript catalogue for proposed re-organisation of the Rudimentary series.
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The group next beginning was meant to consist of examples of scenery in the actual neighbourhood of Oxford, and figures such as we may find any where in England; but this, with many other parts of my first plan for the schools, I have never yet been able to carry out; and must be content to leave this compartment miscellaneous. This our first piece in it, however, shows what I meant to do and will always be very precious, being a lovely record of the sweetest of all our old village churches. It is by M.r. Albert Goodwin and cannot be surpassed in fresh and sunny qualities of colour.
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Two sketches of a village church of a statelier kind, that built under the castle of Hapsburg by the Empress of the murdered Emperor Albert. The detail of its west front is given in the upper sketch, instructive enough in its delicate masonry, which any student of architecture will find advantage in copying.
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Farmer’s boys by William Hunt. Full of various R. merit and interest, but chiefly valuable in showing the force and quality of entirely pure water-colour, now seldom used in figure-painting.
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Another excellent study in pure water colour; placed here, not for any particular merit, but for its extreme pleasantness and sweet feeling of all that is best in lowly English life. (M. Haywood)
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The stupendous drawing by Holbein, of which this is a copy, is so well represented by it that I desire nothing more; and, if diligently observed and in portions copied, this drawing alone will teach the student everything that he has henceforward to do in the expression of animal or vegetable form. The two fringes of fur round the dagger handle will teach him how best to render either fur or moss. The foliage, though beaten out in silver, is just as rich as the clusters of the most beautiful fore-ground, and the crosier-like ornament which forms the side of the sheath leaves me for the present bankrupt in terms of admiration.
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