Learn to draw
Stephen Farthing R.A. presents eight practical drawing classes using John Ruskin’s teaching collections to explain the basic principles of drawing.
An Exercise on the Outline of a common Snail-Shell John Ruskin
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Ruskin text
143 Exercise on outline of common snail-Shell.M -
Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 341 x 495 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the drawing, the spiral of the left-hand shell is labelled, where it crosses the main horizontal and vertical lines, in ink, 'a' to 'f'
bottom left, in graphite (recent): E193
Verso:
top centre, in graphite: 22/C
left, towards bottom, upside down: 3 [or 'z']
top left, 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.ED.193
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 178
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 143
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 193
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. 193
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
143 Exercise on outline of common snail-Shell.M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
193. Exercise on outline of common snail-shell.M
