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Recto: Two Studies of Corinthian Capitals. Verso: A Sketch of a Detail of the Bishop's Throne in the Duomo, Naples. (Leaf from a Sketch-Book.) 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
- 131 x 201 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Campania › Napoli (Naples) › Napoli › Naples Duomo › Naples Duomo (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
written across the bottom, in graphite (Ruskin): my middle one - doughy and heavy | - even here much | too elegant - porphyry | not cutting well
bottom right, in ink: A . 26.l.
Verso (described with the sheet turned to match the orientation of the drawing):
above the curve of the arch, in graphite (Ruskin): Archbishops throne | Duomo Naples
bottom left, in ink, written down the sheet (Ruskin): Naples. April | 20
bottom right, in ink, written down the sheet: A. 23
centre, right, in graphite, written up the sheet: E
- 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.e
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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.v
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
