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Recto: A Duck and a Sea Eagle. Verso: An Indian Duck Anonymous (German)
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous (German) (Anonymous, German) (block cutter)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- woodcut and letterpress on laid paper
- Dimensions
- recto top 117 x 145 mm, bottom 139 x 142 mm, verso 130 x 163 mm (blocks); 379 x 250 mm (sheet), 179 x 249 mm as originally folded in mount
- Inscription
- Both sides carry letterpress (extensive on the verso), notably a running header 'De Auibus' with the page number '728' (recto), and the page number '729' alone (verso). The image of the sea eagle is labelled, above, 'GE HALIÆETO SEV AQUILA MARINA CVIVS | facto est mentio, pag. 201.'; that of the Indian duck is labelled 'ANAS INDICA.'
Recto, top 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.170.b
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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. 120
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 170
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. 170
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
170. Woolly Bird (unknown to modern science), and Sea Eagle. Nuremberg woodcut. E
