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Three Eagles, and an Outline for drawing an Eagle Anonymous Dutch
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous Dutch (Anonymous (Dutch)) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 315 x 192 mm (plate); 444 x 256 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Frederik de Wit (active 1650) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto, within the image, all engraved:
upper compartment, top centre: SEXTA PARS
lower compartment, bottom, right of centre: F. de Wit Excudit Amstelodami.
lower compartment, bottom right: 202
Verso, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, both in brush and ink:
left, struck through: 64
right: 114
- 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.164
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 114
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 164
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. 164
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)
114 Dutch Eagles, academically treated. Example of base work. E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
164. Dutch Eagles, academically treated. Example of base work. E
