Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
Unpublished manuscript catalogue for proposed re-organisation of the Rudimentary series.
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The Source of the Arveron (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Ruskin text
167 169.The Glacier des Bois, and old source of the Arv iey ron , Chamounix; engraved by Turner himself with extremest care, and so often referred to in Modern Painters that I say nothing more of it here, except that the entire mass of ice, which is seen in front of this picture, and from which the Arviron used to issue under the enormous ice-cave seen at the its base between the pine-trees in the lower middledistance, has now utterly vanished owing to the fatal change in the climate of Switzerland during the last ten years, the sunshine never seeming to have power enough to raise clouds so high as to deposit snow on the higher summits.
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- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher, engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 213 x 292 mm (plate); 300 x 443 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate-mark, all etched:
top centre: M
bottom centre: Drawn & Engraved by I.M.W. Turner. R.A. | THE SOURCE of the ARVERON in the VALLEY of CHAMOUNI SAVOY. | Published Jany. 1.1816, by Mr. Turner, Queen Ann Street West.
bottom right, in ink: 114
Verso:
top right, in graphite, written up the sheet: JRuskin : 50/
in the top right corner of the plate mark, in graphite: M/M
bottom right, in graphite: E. E. Very fine | X
just to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
bottom left, in graphite (recent): F60III
- 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.169
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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. 167, RUD.167
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 31.G
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 60.III
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. 167
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 167
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 167
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 169
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. 169
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
31 G. Valley of Chamouni. (Liber Studiorum.) The source of the Arveron seen low down through the cluster of distant pines. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
167 169.The Glacier des Bois, and old source of the Arv iey ron , Chamounix; engraved by Turner himself with extremest care, and so often referred to in Modern Painters that I say nothing more of it here, except that the entire mass of ice, which is seen in front of this picture, and from which the Arviron used to issue under the enormous ice-cave seen at the its base between the pine-trees in the lower middledistance, has now utterly vanished owing to the fatal change in the climate of Switzerland during the last ten years, the sunshine never seeming to have power enough to raise clouds so high as to deposit snow on the higher summits.
