Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
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Drawing of a Squirrel and a Bird's Nest, enlarged from a Manuscript in the Bodleian Library John Ruskin
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Ruskin text
R|40} Squirrel and Bird’s Nest (enlarged). MS. Bodl.M. -
Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Anonymous, Continental (Anonymous, Continental)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 392 x 284 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom towards left, in graphite (erased): R 40
Verso:
filling in the top half, extensive notes by Ruskin in graphite, presumably for a rearrangement of the series:
271-275. more heraldry - makes 264-275 all black [...]
239 [crossed out] - 251 - 250 - my con[...]uctions & cross - 225 - 253 empty
233 - 250. all for birds. Then 226 to 250 will be birds
201 - Halcyon - to 225 all full of birds [followed by a line pointing up two lines]
176 - 200 . - empty
159. Seahorse - then empty - & 175. for fish
139 - 140 [underlined] Goodwin 141 - 150. empty for landscape
126. Miracoli. 127. Silver - rest empty to 138.
114 - 125. Greek full
[the following four lines enclosed within a box]
113. one Gothic wanted
109. - do. at Venice
105, 106 - my Eleonora leaves & Scala cap.
101-104 empty - fo [sic] Gothic drawings
R.1 to 18 ['18' crossed out] 38) (25+13) all flower
39-41 Gothic beasts - [the following enclosed within a sinlge line] take 42 to 46. out. pur in birds | 246 to 250
then 47 to 50 are lions
below, left, crossed out, after a line pointing up to the line beginning '101' above: 101. Giotto's Hope
to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
below, towards left, in graphite: R 40
- 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.040
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 210
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. 40, RUD.040
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. 40
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 40
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 40
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. 40
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|40} Squirrel and Bird’s Nest (enlarged). MS. Bodl.M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|40} Squirrel and Bird’s nest (enlarged). MS. Bodl.M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|40} Squirrel and Bird’s nest (enlarged). MS. Bodl.M.
