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Tracing of Turner's "Heysham and Cumberland Mountains" John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink with touches of bodycolour on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 326 x 475 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Lancashire › Heysham › Heysham (subject)
- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Cumbria › Cumberland (subject)
- Inscription
- Verso, centre, towards top, 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.290
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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. 058
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. XII.8.A
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 290
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. 290
Location
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- currently in research collection
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
8 A Pen drawing, traced on Turner’s Heysham. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
290. Pen drawing, traced on Turner’s Heysham. M
