Ashmolean − The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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Curator’s description:

Description

This drawing was not catalogued by Ruskin, but was presumably one of the 'several water-colours of Venetian pictures by Mr. C. Fairfax Murray' listed as being in the Long Cabinet by Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.306). The imprecision of Cook and Wedderburn's description of the cabinet mean that it has been given an arbitrary number within the cabinet for the purposes of the current catalogue.
Details

Artist/maker

Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 - 1919)

after Jacopo Palma, il Vecchio (1480 - 1528)

Object type

drawing

Material and technique

watercolour over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

224 x 209 mm

Inscription

Verso:
a sketch
centre right, in graphite: E
bottom left, in graphite: Long 6. Palma

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.LC.06
Subject terms allocated by curators:

Subjects

painting

portrait

woman
References in which this object is cited include:

References

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. Long Cabinet