Ashmolean The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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• This visual browsing tool displays your results as they were organised in Ruskin’s cabinet series:
• John Ruskin built up a collection of artworks for his drawing classes. He divided the works into four main series: Standard, Reference, Educational and Rudimentary.
• Each item was placed in a numbered frame, and the frames were arranged in cabinets, so that they all had a specific position in the collection – although Ruskin moved items about as his ideas changed. For more details, see Ruskin’s Catalogues.