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Engraving of Turner's "Florence, from Fiesole" James Hakewill
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Details
- Artist/maker
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James Hakewill (1778 - 1843) (designer)W. R. Smith (active 19th century) (engraver)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 155 x 235 mm (sheet)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Firenze (Florence) › Florence › Florence (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, below the image, all engraved:
bottom left: Drawn by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. from a finish'd Sketch by J. Hakewill.
bottom right: Engrav'd by W.R. Smith.
Verso:
along the bottom edge, in graphite: 6F" pen crossed thru' on old mt | 48 pencil
to the right, in graphite: after TURNER | E270
top right, 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.270
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. XI.6.F
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 270
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. 270
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)
6 F Florence, from Fiesole. Line engraving from Turner. E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
270. Florence, from Fiesole. Line engraving from Turner. E
