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View from the Promenade, Douglas (Leaf from a Sketch-Book of Manx Scenes)
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Curator’s description:
Description
This drawing was not catalogued explicitly by Ruskin, although it must be one of the 'series of pencil sketches in the Isle of Man' 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.
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Details
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 93 x 161 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
below the image, bottom left: Mar. 20th. 1880. 9.a.m. | Strong Breeze N.W. [the 'W' crossed out] | from Promenade. Douglas
a series of colour notes in the drawing, starting from top left: Blue
top centre: warm [...]sh. d grey
just above the horizon, centre: brownish | light blue grey and warm white
just below, in the dark part of the sea : [...] purple
just below: green
just below the drawing, left of centre: Drab
Verso:
top left, in ink?: A
bottom left, in graphite: Long 38
- 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.LC.38
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
