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Photograph of Dürer's "Greater Celandine" anonymous Austrian
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Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous Austrian (photographer)after Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 274 x 142 mm (print); 474 x 315 mm (mount)
- Inscription
- On the front of the mount:
printed, within a cartouche: ALBRECHT DÜRER
lower right, in graphite (recent): E. 256 | Photo | also 5 E on verso
On the back of the mount:
top right, in graphite, underlined, and struck through in graphite: Wood frame
top centre, in graphite and struck through in graphite: 32
bottom 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.256
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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.E
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 256
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 32
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. 256
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 E Study of leaves of Wild Carrot. (Dürer). P -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
256. Study of leaves of Wild Carrot. (Dürer). P -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
32. Study of the wall-cabbage. (Photograph from Dürer’s drawing.)I do not know if the original is in colour or not; probably in colour. But, as translated for us into brown, it is equally exemplary. You cannot copy it too carefully or too often.
