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Part of the Façade of the destroyed Church of San Michele in Foro, Lucca, as it appeared in 1845 John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on grey wove paper
- Dimensions
- 330 x 233 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Lucca › Lucca › San Michele in Foro › San Michele in Foro (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
below the left-hand detail of a column, in graphite: [...] | [...] | across
below the two right-hand details of columns, in graphite: bottom [...] | like f[...]
just below both inscriptions, in graphite: Five arches below | small one at each | 4 middle [...] | pairs & one in | middle _ all [...] | only
labelled down the left-hand side of the main image, in graphite, 'P' and 'P'
labelled down the right-hand side of the main image, in graphite, 'P', 'A', 'C', 'S', 'B' and 'P'
bottom right, in ink: San Michele . Lucca | 1845. JR.
Verso, centre, 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.083
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 020
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 35.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 83
Penny, Nicholas, Ruskin's Drawings, Ashmolean - Christie's Handbooks (London: Phaidon, 1988), no. 24
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. 83
Location
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- currently in research collection
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
35 D Part of the façade of the destroyed church of San Michele at Lucca, as it appeared in 1845. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
83. Part of the façade of the destroyed church of San Michele at Lucca, as it appeared in 1845. M
