Ashmolean − The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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Details
Artist/maker

Fratelli Alinari (active 1854 - 1920) (photographer)

after Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378 - 1455) (sculptor)

Object type

photograph

Material and technique

albumen print

Dimensions

545 x 408 mm
Associated place
- Europe › Italy › Toscana (Tuscany) › Firenze (Florence) › Florence › Florence Baptistery › Florence Baptistery (subject)
Inscription

Recto:
bottom right, presumably written upon the negative and therefore printing white: [...]616
just to the right, blind stamped: FRATELLI ALINARI | FIRENZE | [...] NAZIONALE

Verso, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp

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.136
Subject terms allocated by curators:

Subjects

building

door

religious subject

sculpture
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. 136