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Recto: Four Studies of Bean-Blossom. Verso: Six Studies of Vine-Blossom 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 over graphite, with bodycolour on the verso, on lined blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 196 x 158 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, in ink (Ruskin):
top left: 369
just below: Bean.
the four detailed drawings are lettered, top left 'a', top right 'c', bottom left 'a2', bottom right 'b'
below the upper left drawing: Calyx. Stamens. and pistil.
bottom, across the page but the first line starting in the centre: The Calyx is 5 sepaled; [sic] in | perspective rudely at b | The stigma seen in profile in a and a2. is | an exquisite white & pure gloss fau ['fau' struck through] fan. c. when | seen frm above
Verso, in ink, Ruskin:
top right: 368
along the top, abov a horizontal line: Gloxinia. account of. M. 29. 1191
just below the line, right: Vine
bottom right: Very light appearance | of projecting rib on | upper surface
bottom centre, 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.c
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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. 071.i
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.
