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Study of Gold-bearing Quartz John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over black chalk on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 340 x 250 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom right, in ink: Study of Stone. | Lesson at Oxford. 1874 or 75 | Signed 1879 J. Ruskin
Verso:
centre, towards bottom, the Ruskin School's stamp
just above and to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: M.47
- Provenance
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Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.ED.282bis
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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. 301
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. 282bis
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
