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Study of a Stem of Agrimony John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink and bodycolour over graphite on blue lined paper
- Dimensions
- 196 x 156 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
top right, in graphite: 417
just below, in ink: Agrimony | Pliny. vol II, p. 368 l. 25 and not[...] | Sowerb. III. 130. Pl. 417
bottom right: pure crown of cinqfoil [sic] with | under star of stamens | hooked bracts. !!! ['stamens' struck through]
Verso, centre 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.238.a
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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. 071.iii
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. X.3.L
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 238
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 33.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. 238
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 L Bean-blossom and Agrimony. Light pen-drawing. -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
238. Bean-blossom and Agrimony. Light pen drawing. M -
Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
33 B. Calyx and stamens of bean blossom (petals removed). Calyx and stamens of Rose Acacia blossom (petals removed), both magnified; and blossom of Agrimony, natural size. (R.) Pen and ink, on common blue lined writing paper (leaves of my botanical note-book), touched with white.You will find this a most wholesome and useful manner of drawing. Take care always to keep leaning well on the firm outline: it is much easier to draw things as the bean blossom is drawn, than as the agrimony is.
