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Study of a Cobra about to strike, from an Egyptian Relief John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 178 x 126 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
top, from the left: Fir cone in ha[...]
right, below top, truncated by the edge of the sheet: Baptism sarcoph | precious Euergetes [...] [the last two words surrounded by a graphite line]
bottom: Man in hand pouring water . draw
- 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.174.c
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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. 188
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 124
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 174
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. 174
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)
124 Profile and full face of Cobra. From life. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
174. Profile and full face of Cobra. From life. M
