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Moss and Wild Strawberry John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
The drawing shows moss and wild strawberry plants in a cleft in a rock; grass, and other broad-leafed plants, are sketched in at the top, towards the right.
Although Cook and Wedderburn dated the drawing to 'about 1880' - presumably associating it with the many botanical studies made by Ruskin at Brantwood as he was working on "Proserpina" (1881) - Taylor suggets that, stylistically, it is closer to earlier drawings such as Educational Series no. 11, also of wild strawberry and dated June 1873. He associates it with a diary entry for 6 June 1873, 'I've been two days drawing wild strawberry'.
The drawing was first catalogued in the Oxford collection in 1906, when Cook and Wedderburn included it as no. 90 in the Reference Series - one of a set of frames (nos 84-100) which Ruskin had never listed in his own catalogues of the collection.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite and traces of bodycolour on grey-blue paper
- Dimensions
- 541 x 376 mm
- 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.REF.090
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 275
Ruskin, John, The Diaries of John Ruskin, ed. Joan Evans and John Howard Whitehouse, 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956-1959), pl. 59, f.p. 856
Penny, Nicholas, Ruskin's Drawings, Ashmolean - Christie's Handbooks (London: Phaidon, 1988), no. 22
Ruskin, John, ‘The Works of John Ruskin’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), XXI pl. XXVIII fp 34
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. 90
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
