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Part of a Star Crown: enlarged Drawing of Dürer's "Virgin with a Sceptre and Crown of Stars" George Allen
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Details
- Artist/maker
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after Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) (engraver)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 329 x 477 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
bottom, towards right, in graphite (recent): G·Allen
top, towards right, in graphite, upside down (recent): Allen after Durer (E 74)
Verso:
top centre, in graphite, struck through in graphite: 37 B
top left, in graphite, struck through in graphite: 3.E Star [?]
printed over the previous inscription, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in graphite: E 231
- 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.231
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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. X.3.E
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 231
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 37.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. 231
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)
3 E Part of Star Crown. Enlarged from Dürer. -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
231. Part of Star Crown. Enlarged from Dürer. -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
37 B. Sketch of the action of the lines of the crown, to show how free Dürer’s hand is on the metal. Every line is swept with the precision of the curve of a sail in a breeze.
