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Drawing of an Initial 'N' from a twelfth-century illuminated Manuscript anonymous British
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Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous British (Anonymous (British))after Anonymous, Continental (Anonymous, Continental)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on card
- Dimensions
- 172 x 110 mm
- Inscription
- Verso, in graphite (recent):
top right: Edu. 205
top, towards left: Assistant | ? J. J. Laing | originally Edu 17 | then I. D. New
- 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.205
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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. IX.1.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 205
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 17.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. 205
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 D Letter of 12th Century. Study from M.S. -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
205. Letter of 12th Century.Study from M.S.
