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A Cuckoo Christiaan Sepp
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Christiaan Sepp (c. 1700 - 1775) (engraver)Jan Christiaen Sepp (1739 - 1811) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour over engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 291 x 333 mm (plate); 451 x 308 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto, lettered within the plate, top centre: CUCULUS RUFUS.
Verso:
bottom left, in graphite: R/1/82
bottom right, 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.RUD5.RUD.182
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 181-187
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 181-187
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 181-187
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
