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Drawing of a Branch of Oak from Cima's "Saint John the Baptist with Saints Peter, Mark, Jerome and Paul" John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Cima da Conegliano (1459/60 - ?1518)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 377 x 217 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
bottom, left of centre: T
bottom, just right of centre: S. M. dell'Orto | Venturi. VII. 4. p.506. Fig.306
Verso, below and right of 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.020
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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. 129
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 12
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 20
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 12
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. 20
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)
12 Oak. Study from Cima da Conegliano. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
20. Oak. Study from Cima da Conegliano. M -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
Oak, for Zeus.Spray of free-growing oak from the picture of Cima’s. (Standard, No. 8.) The colour here is daubed on without thought of anything but true outline.
Make studies of leaves seen against the sky, as many as you can, in this manner.
