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Photograph of the western Porches of Chartres Cathedral Edouard-Denis Baldus
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Edouard-Denis Baldus (1815 - 1882) (photographer)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 326 x 417 mm (print); 329 x 425 mm (mount)
- Associated place
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- Europe › France › Centre › Chartres › Chartres Cathedral › Chartres Cathedral (subject)
- Inscription
- On the front of the mount, bottom right, stamped in a cursive script and partially trimmed away: E Baldus
On the back of the mount:
top left, in graphite (recent): Ref 53 taken from | Ref 52 frame in which | recently nailed
top right, running down the sheet, in graphite in Ruskin's hand: Large Gold
bottom centre, 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.REF.053
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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, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Standard no. 155
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Reference Series Including Temporarily the First Section of the Standard Series (London: Smith, Elder, [1872]), cat. Reference no. 53
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. Reference no. 53
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
155. Porches of Chartres Cathedral, west front. -
Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
53 Western Porches of the Cathedral of Chartres P
