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Four Studies of Gooseberry-blossom John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink over graphite, one diagram obscured with white bodycolour, on lined blue laid paper with a Britannia watermark
- Dimensions
- 197 x 160 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in ink (Ruskin) save where indicated:
top left: [...] [all crossed out] | Gooseberry
each diagram identified with a letter, on the left, top to bottom, 'a', 'b' and 'c'; on the right, 'a2'
just above the upper image, in graphite: 1
in the bottom right corner of the sheet: The five stamens rise, one from | the centre of each of the five | leaves of the calyx: and in | section as at c. seen from | above. b. | a. and a2. the two lateral | views. a magnified. a2 and b | real size
Verso, all in ink (Ruskin):
written across the top: In primrose. | The Stamens for the most part rise to | the top and close over the style
written across the greater part of the sheet, from just below the previous inscription, surrounded at top, bottom and left by a single line: (Calyx. continued.) ['Calyx' underlined] It is really the | enclosure of budding flower. The | cauliflower most beautiful. purple ['purple' underlined] bed [?] | expands slowly a little while. then - out | bursts a golden 4foil. The calyx | first purple - turned green - and then | orange, in dying. Calyx and corolla | fall off together. & leave a pod. | The buttercup is on the same principle | but its calyx withers into a ['a' struck through] white rags | and falls before the corolla + [a line runs from the '+' to the one below] | In Lilac. calyx so subordinate to flower | that I cant [?] find the flower quite | shut up in it. + Oppose dropping | corolla of the Vine
just below, enclosed with a single curved line below: Calyx not permanent
top, towards right: No page 353. / This faces 352
just to the right: 354
bottom right: now p. 356
- 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.018.a
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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. 070.i
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 11.C
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 18
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. 18
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)
11 C Gooseberry, Currant, and Cherry-blossom.M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
18. Gooseberry, Currant, and Cherry-blossom.M
