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Fleur-de-Lys ('Iris Florentina') 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 wove paper
- Dimensions
- 310 x 206 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, top right, in graphite: Ed 12.
Verso:
right, towards bottom, in graphite: Ed 12
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.012
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 230
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), p. 200
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 8
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 12
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 12
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 7
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. 12
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)
8 Fleur-de-Lys. (Iris Florentina). M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
12. Fleur-de-Lys. (Iris Florentina). M -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
R 12.I place the Fleur-de-Lis next the Strawberry that the student may compare the triple disposition of Form which gave to both plants, being coupled with the utmost exquisiteness in detail, their royal authority over the human mind. I have also painted this flower as well as I could, and the student will find great good in copying it without too laborious effort. Let him, however, take extreme care to get the perspective of the divisions of the left-hand sepal.
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
7. Fleur de Lys, for Cora.She ought traditionally to have the violet, and, sometimes, narcissus; but see note on 23 K.
