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Recto: Study of a Laurel Leaf from a Greek Coin Verso: Study of a Laurel Leaf from a Greek Coin John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- recto, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite; verso, graphite, all on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 383 x 284 mm
- Inscription
- Verso, bottom right, 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.037
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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. 189
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 22.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 37
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 31
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. 37
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)
22 D Early Greek Treatment of Foliage. (Coin of Syracuse). M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
37. Early Greek Treatment of Foliage. (Coin of Syracuse). M -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
31.Although this exercise is of an elementary character I place it beside the last, because it shows more distinctly the strictness of limitation between within tapering lines which a Greek was always prepared to submit to joyfully, whether in the pediment of a Temple, or, as here, in the pointing of a garland towards the brow. It will be observed that there is more natural spring in this olive-branch than in that round the head of the Jupiter. It indeed belongs to a less conscious and more lovely state of Greek art.
