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Study for a Head of Danaë Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over black chalk on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 315 x 260 mm
- 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.224
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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.2.J
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 224
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 49
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. 224
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 J Study for Head of Danae. (E. Burne Jones). -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
224. Study for Head of Danae. (E. Burne Jones). -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
49. Sketch for the Head of Danae. (Edward Burne Jones.)Showing, better than any other modern example I have by me, some parallel to the nobly subdued methods of colour employed in the thoughtful schools of the Venetians, after their union with those of light and shade.
