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.
Detail of the Equestrian Statue on the Summit of the Tomb of Cangrande I della Scala, Verona John Ruskin
-
Ruskin text
63 Details of the ornamentation of the Statue on the summit of the Tomb of Can Grande. Verona M(These had to be drawn while holding on with one hand to the horse’s neck, or the rider’s saddle, for the ledge is too narrow to stand upright on; but the leaf pattern of the horse-cloth is carefully given.) And the other details are not without interest. Compare R 24 and 25.
-
Details
- Artist/maker
-
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 253 x 181 mm
- Associated place
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom right, in graphite: slightest incision
Verso, near centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
-
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.REF.063.g
-
Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
-
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. 119.vii
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Reference no. 63
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. Reference no. 63
Location
-
- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
-
Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
63 Details of the ornamentation of the Statue on the summit of the Tomb of Can Grande. Verona M(These had to be drawn while holding on with one hand to the horse’s neck, or the rider’s saddle, for the ledge is too narrow to stand upright on; but the leaf pattern of the horse-cloth is carefully given.) And the other details are not without interest. Compare R 24 and 25.
