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Butterflies Edward Donovan
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Edward Donovan (1768 - 1837)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over ink and graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 283 x 228 mm (sheet); 352 x 262 mm (mount)
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
top left: 189
top right, partially cut off: Of Order Lepi[doptera]
bottom right: [...]
On the mount, verso, 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.ED.189
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 189
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. 189
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
189. Insects. Zoological drawing in even tints, exemplary for smooth laying. E
