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Part of Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice: Sketch after Rain John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour and ink over graphite on grey wove paper
- Dimensions
- 421 x 286 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Piazzetta di San Marco › Pilastri Acritani › Pilastri Acritani (subject)
- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di San Marco › Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di San Marco (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in graphite: 27th May. 1846.
- 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.209
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Piper, David, and Christopher White, Treasures of the Ashmolean Museum: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Collections, revised edn (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1995), no. 101 on p. 97, illus. p. 97 fig. 101
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 027
Ruskin, John, The Diaries of John Ruskin, ed. Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse, 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956-1959), pl. 28, between pp. 334 & 335
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. IX.1.H
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 209
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. 209
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 H Part of St. Mark’s, Venice. Sketch after rain. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
209. Part of St. Mark’s, Venice. Sketch after rain. M
