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Photograph of Botticelli's "Primavera" Anonymous Italian
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous Italian (Anonymous, Italian) (photographer)after Sandro Botticelli (c. 1444/1445 - 1510)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 239 x 372 mm (print); 244 x 375 mm (mount)
- Inscription
- In the photograph, bottom right, apparently written on the negative and so printing white: 647.
On the back of the mount:
towards top right, in graphite: E.251
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink, struck through in graphite, upside down: 15
On a separate rectangular paper label, in graphite and struck through in graphite: Frame - 5. wanted for this
On another small rectangular paper label, in ink, struck through in graphite: 5. New
- 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.251
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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. XI.5
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 251
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. 251
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)
5 Aphrodite and the Spring. (Sandro Botticelli). P -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
251. Aphrodite and the Spring. (Sandro Botticelli). P
