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Print of the Decoration on a Greek Hydria, showing Scylla P. Bineteau
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Curator’s description:
Description
The lithograph is arranged in two tiers. The upper section shows Scylla, with a woman's upper body and a fish's fins and tail. A strand of stylised leaves hangs above her, a small fish swims beside her, a dragon's head appears behind her, and she holds an octopus in one outstretched hand. Below is a small depiction of the whole hydria, turned to show the head which is depicted behind Scylla's tail. The print reproduces the decoration of a yellow- and white-figure hydria in the British Museum. It was plate XXXVI in the third volume of Lenormant and de Witte's "Elite des monuments céramographiques", published in 1858. It was presumably taken from Ruskin's copy of the work now preserved in the Ruskin Library (inventory no. 1996B2621), which is missing many of its plates.
The print was first catalogued by Ruskin in 1871, when it appeared as no. 128 in the Educational Series, placed in Case VIII, "Elementary Zoology". It remained in the same position, although renumbered as no. 178, in the 1874 catalogue of the series, but does not appear in Ruskin's 1878 reorganisation of the series.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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P. Bineteau (active c. 1857 - c. 1858) (printer)I. Petet (active c. 1858) (lithographer)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 221 x 247 mm (stone); 256 x 348 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- All printed, just outside the border of the image:
top left: T. III.
top right: PL. XXXVI.
bottom left: Lith. de P. Bineteau
bottom right: I. Petet, sc.
On a small paper label in ink but struck through many times in graphite: 128
On another small paper label, in graphite 1/78
- 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.178
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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. 128
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 178
Lenormant, Charles, and Jean de Witte, Elite des monuments céramographiques: Matériaux pour l'histoire des religions et des moeurs de l'antiquité, 4 vols in 8 (Paris: Leleux, 1844-1861), vol. III, pl. XXXVI
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. 178
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)
128 Scylla. (Le Normand, III. 36). E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
178. Scylla. (Le Normand, III. 36). E
