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Detail of the Porta dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio at Lucca John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and pen and ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 129 x 141 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Lucca › Lucca › Porta dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio › Porta dei Santi Gervasio e Protasio (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, all in ink:
on the left edge, running down the drawing: A | B | C | D
bottom: On outside of east gate of Lucca. between the towers. A.B.C.D are | successive magnitudes 1st 2nd May 1872 [the '2' of '2nd' written over a '4']
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite: Ref 134 (4)
bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: M13
- 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.134.b
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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. 258
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. 134
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
