The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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Drawing of the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Daniel, from the Mosaics of the Altar-Vault of Saint Mark's, Venice John Wharlton Bunney

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    Artist/maker
    John Wharlton Bunney (1828 - 1882)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour and gold paint over graphite on wove paper
    Dimensions
    508 x 354 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto:
    top left, in watercolour: MARY
    top right, in graphite: nimbi [?] lines | much finer

    Verso, all in graphite:
    top right, written down the page: No 2
    bottom right (recent?): Ref. 107 | probably Bunney (C&W)
    Provenance

    Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

    No. of items
    1
    Accession no.
    WA.RS.REF.107
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  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    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. Reference no. 107

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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