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Study, for Colour, of a piece of Chinese Enamel John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour, and gold paint over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 118 x 199 mm
- Inscription
- Verso, in graphite, all written up the sheet:
top left: E 202 - Ruskin
lower left: 1.A. New Series | ink [?] JR | 20 - 6 Jap | Colour / A B. | 20 - B
centre, towards the left, linked with a line to the 'AB' of the previous inscription: ? ie. by Burgess not by | Ruskin as in C&W [the 'not' underlined]
left, 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.202
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 200
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. IX.1.A
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 202
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 20.B
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. 202
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)
1 A Study of Colour in Chinese Enamel. -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
203. Outline in Pencil of 13th Century Ornament.M -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
20 B. Study of Chinese enamel.The Oriental colour is more subtle than the Gothic; but the want of power over form indicates total inferiority of intellect and general art capacity. Compare the bird, here, with the perfect though quaint delineation of the Egyptians (13).
This example may serve to remind you of the general principle for good colour which is stated in my Elements of Drawing:Make the white precious, and the black conspicuous.
