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Æsacus and Hesperie (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)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 207 x 286 mm (plate); 252 x 334 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- On the front of the original cover mount, all in graphite:
bottom centre: Aesacus & Hesperie
bottom right corner of window: F66 (II State of the Etching)
On the back of the original cover mount, all in graphite:
top left: 4J.
bottom left, within a circle: 2/61
centre, on the left edge: Edu 249
- 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.249
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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. X.4.J
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 249
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 66.E.II
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. 249
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
