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Fragments of a Mosaic Pavement in the Sistine Chapel Charles Fairfax Murray
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Charles Fairfax Murray (1849 - 1919)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 521 x 356 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Lazio › Roma (Rome) › Rome › Vatican Palace › Vatican Palace (Sistine Chapel, subject)
- Inscription
- Verso:
near top, left of centre, in ink: Sistine May 1874 C.F.M.
graphite (recent): (C. Fairfax) MURRAY
bottom, towards right (recent): Not in printed Cat, nor Bell's notes in MSS.
centre, towards bottom, the Ruskin School's stamp
Verso:
top right, in ink: Sistine May 1874 C. F. M
just above, in graphite: (C. Fairfax) MURRAY
bottom right, in graphite: Not in Printed Cat. nor Bell's lists in MSS
bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.094
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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. Reference no. 94
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
