Ruskin's revised catalogue of 300 works for the instruction of undergraduates and his notes on the use of particular examples.
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.
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 189
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 22.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 37
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 31
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. 37
Although this exercise is of an elementary character I place it beside the last, because it shows more distinctly the strictness of limitation between within tapering lines which a Greek was always prepared to submit to joyfully, whether in the pediment of a Temple, or, as here, in the pointing of a garland towards the brow. It will be observed that there is more natural spring in this olive-branch than in that round the head of the Jupiter. It indeed belongs to a less conscious and more lovely state of Greek art.