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Afternoon in Spring, with south Wind, at Neuchâtel John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
A view across foam-flecked waves on the Lac de Neuchâtel to the cliffs and woods of the northern shore, with the snowcapped crests of the Bernese Oberland rising in the distance. The cloudy sky above is full of movement, further adding to the impression of a windy day.
Ruskin stayed at Neuchâtel on 30 April 1869, on the outward leg of his journey to Switzerland and the Veneto. Taylor suggests that this drawing, and that of "Morning in Spring, with north-east Wind, at Vevey" which was framed with it, were done within a short space of time of each other.
The drawing was first catalogued in the Drawing School in 1871, as no. 8 I in Case XII of the Educational Series, which was devoted to 'Rocks, Water, and Clouds'. Although renumbered, as 298, it remained in the same place in the 1874 catalogue of the series.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on pale grey wove paper
- Dimensions
- 173 x 252 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Switzerland › Bernese Alps › Bernese Alps (subject)
- Europe › Switzerland › Lake Neuchâtel › Lake Neuchâtel (subject)
- 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.298.a
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 105
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. XII.8.I
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 298
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. 298
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)
Afternoon in spring, with south wind, at Neuchatel; -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
Afternoon in spring with south wind, at Neufchâtel;
