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Jason (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 208 x 290 mm (plate); 260 x 366 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto, etched below the image:
left: Drawn. & etched by J.M.W. Turner R.A. | Pict 3 Ft. by 4.
right: Engraved by C. Turner
centre: JASON. 3 by 4 | Published as the Act directs by J.M.W. Turner Harley Street
bottom right corner, in ink: 43
Verso:
lower right, in graphite: [...] - very fine
centre, on the right edge, 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.180
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 130
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 180
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 06.III
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 173
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. 180 & Rudimentary no. 173
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)
130 Jason. (Liber Studiorum ) : a bad proof, placed only till I can get a better). M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
180. Jason. (Liber Studiorum) : (a bad proof, placed only till I can get a better). M -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
now Edu. S. 180 173.Jason attacking the Dragon . This and the two R. following examples of Turner’s heroic design are so copiously illustrated in Modern Painters that it is unnecessary here to give more than their titles.
