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A 'Woolly Bird' Anonymous (German)
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous (German) (Anonymous, German) (block cutter)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- woodcut and letterpress on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 56 x 44 mm (block); 379 x 241 mm (sheet), 119 x 240 mm as originally folded in mount
- Inscription
- Both sides covered with extensive letterpress, notably running headers 'De gallopauo.G.Lib.III.' with the page number '427' (recto), and 'De Auibus' with the page number '428' (verso); the image is labelled, above, 'DE GALLINI LANIGERIS VEL LANATIS.'
Recto:
in the right margin, centre, in graphite: [...]
just below, in graphite: 2 7/8
bottom, left of centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small square paper label, in ink: 70
- 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.170.a
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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. 120
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 170
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. 170
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
170. Woolly Bird (unknown to modern science), and Sea Eagle. Nuremberg woodcut. E
