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Study of a few Blades of Grass as they Grew John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on pale grey paper
- Dimensions
- 219 x 164 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in graphite (recent): ED 6
Verso, centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.ED.006
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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. 017
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 4
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 6
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 6
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 41.C
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. 6
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
4 Study of a few blades of grass as they grew.M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
6. Study of a few blades of grass as they grew.M -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
R 6.The first drawing I ever made faithfully of Grass - that is to say, of a few blades outmost of a cluster in full Spring-time. They are better drawn, as far as regards outline and accuracy of curve, than I could draw them now; for Youth has its own powers, and it will be well for the world when we understand that these, rightly trained, are the most sacred of the whole life - the best of our faculties afterwards being more or less broken and sullied. The earliest drawings of every great painter contain, as notably those of Raphael, the germ of his finest work, and it is well if the finer work be not partly frost bitten.
