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Sculpture on the south-west (or "Fig-Tree") Angle of the Ducal Palace, Venice John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- ink, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 131 x 175 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Palazzo Ducale › Palazzo Ducale (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, all in ink:
below the middle of the carving's bottom: a b
below, to the right: J. Ruskin : . 52.
bottom, centre: Sculpture under the feet of Angel Gabriel; Ducal Palace main angle. | Noblest style of 14th century sculpture in Venice. | note the magnificent and delicate curvature
on the right edge, running up the sheet from the bottom: the dark interstices at unequal length - &c -
Verso, top left, 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.218
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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. 044
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. IX.2.D
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 218
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 25
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. 218
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)
2 D Sculpture on the angle of Ducal Palace, Venice. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
218. Sculpture on the angle of Ducal Palace, Venice. M -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
Sculpture from the south-west angle of the Ducal Palace, Venice. (R.)Sketch with pencil, and shade with flat wet touches of cobalt with light red.
