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Bog-Heather (Erica Tetralix) Arthur Burgess
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Arthur Burgess (1843 - 1886) (lithographer)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- lithograph on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 83 x 134 mm (stone); 144 x 162 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Verso:
top right, in graphite: 9 3H New | crossed pencil | this | [a horizontal brace] | pencil
just to the right, in graphite: Burgess woodcut [?] | E15/above
bottom right, in graphite: A,1.
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.015.a
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 10
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 15
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 9.B
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. 15
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)
Bog-heather (Erica Tetralix). Woodcut: -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
Bog-heather (Erica Tetralix). Woodcut: -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
9 B. Cluster of the bells of Erica tetralix. (R.) Beautifully engraved on wood by Mr. Burgess.Copy it with steel crowquill, and note that in all clustered flowers it is necessary, to the expression of their complete character, to draw them on two, or more, sides. The head of dandelion below, by Mr. Burgess, is to show the right use of wood in plant-engraving; but I shall change the place of this, and put Erica cinerea below Erica tetralix.
