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Recto: Studies of a Corinthian Capital and the Top of the Pediment of the Tomb of Roger II in Palermo Cathedral. Verso: A Study of the Head of Christ from the Tomb of Frederick II in Palermo Cathedral John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 198 x 131 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Sicilia (Sicily) › Palermo › Palermo › Palermo Duomo › Palermo Duomo (Tomb of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, subject)
- Europe › Italy › Sicilia (Sicily) › Palermo › Palermo › Palermo Duomo › Palermo Duomo (Tomb of Roger II, King of Sicily, subject)
- Inscription
- Recto (all Ruskin):
top right, in ink, written down the page: A.27.2.
to the right of the bottom of the capital, in graphite: impossible | to find | a richer | or lovelier | Corinthian
Verso (described with the sheet turned to match the orientation of the drawing):
below the drawing, in graphite (Ruskin): The Xt. on Frederick
top left, in ink, upside down: Palermo
centre left, in graphite, written down the sheet: C.
bottom left, in ink, upside down: [...]
- 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.172.a
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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. 280.iii
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. 172
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
