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Study of Gold-bearing Quartz John Ruskin

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    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

    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

    • Western Art Print Room

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