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Study from Tintoretto's "Circumcision" in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)after Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto (1519 - 1594)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 181 x 241 mm
- Inscription
- Vesro, bottom right, truncated by the edge of the sheet, 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.225
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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.K
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 225
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 50
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. 225
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 K Study from Tintoret. (E. Burne Jones). -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
225. Study from Tintoret. (E. Burne Jones). -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
50. Study of part of Tintoret’s picture of the Presentation in the Temple in the Scuola di San Rocco. (Edward Burne Jones.)As like Tintoret’s colour as the material will permit, the picture is one gloom of black and crimson, lighted with grey and gold, and a type of all that is mightiest in the arts of colour and shade.
Into the analysis of which we will try to enter farther hereafter: enough work is before us for our present strength.
