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Photograph of the Sculpture of the Lion of Saint Mark in the Piazzetta, Venice Anonymous Italian
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous Italian (Anonymous, Italian) (photographer)after Anonymous (sculptor)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 251 x 342 mm (print); 279 x 367 mm (mount)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Piazzetta di San Marco › Leone di San Marco › Leone di San Marco (subject)
- Inscription
- Within the photograph, bottom left, blind stamped, a monogram, possibly: SS
On the back of the mount:
Centre, text in letterpress, in Italian and English, giving the statue's history, and headed: Leone di S. Marco sulla colonna della Piazzetta
above, centre, in ink, crossed out in ink: 19
to the right, in graphite: E 160
below the text, 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.160
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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. 110
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 160
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. 160
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)
110 St. Mark’s Lion. 12th Century (wings modern). Venice. P -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
160. St. Mark’s Lion. 12th Century (wings modern). Venice. P
