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Study of the second Pier from the Left on the Portico of the Duomo of San Martino, Lucca John Ruskin

  • Curator’s description:

    Description

    According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI. 34 n. 2), 'The Catalogue contained no Nos. 84-100, these examples having been added at various times after its issue.'

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
    Object type
    drawing
    Material and technique
    watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
    Dimensions
    356 x 287 mm
    Associated place
    Inscription
    Recto, bottom right, in graphite: A . bottom

    Verso:
    near bottom, left of centre, in graphite (recent): Ref 86 Lower | "Lucca San Martino" on mount
    just to the left, the Ruskin School's stamp
    just below, in ink: M. 2.
    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.REF.086.b
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    building

    column

    religious subject

    sculpture

    Tree of Jesse

  • 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. 289

    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. 86

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Arts and Humanities Research Council

University of Oxford

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

Ashmolean

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