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A Wild Strawberry Plant John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 180 x 143 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
below the image, centre: The Rose of Demeter, | Springing in a cleft of her rocks.
bottom right: J. Ruskin. | Brantwood. June 73.
- 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.011.a
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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. 276
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 7
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 11
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 11
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 6
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. 11
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)
7 Wild Strawberry blossom, with enlarged study beneath.M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
11. Wild Strawberry-blossom, with enlarged study underneath.M -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
R 11.This is nearly as well done as needs be, and should be copied by every student as an Example of Water-colour sketching; the gradations of the dark lower leaf being specially attended to, and the outline of the leaf on the right. It is an absolute rendering of the facts of growth in the little plant, which are so perfectly symmetrical, and, in the good sense of the word, artful, that we cannot wonder its leaf should have been accepted as the type of consummate ornament in the Royal Crowns of Christendom.
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
6. Strawberry blossom, for Demeter.In Greece she should have the poppy; but it is well to think of her as the queen of the fruitful blossoming of the earth; so she shall have the strawberry, which grows close to it, and whose leaves crown our English peers.
