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Winter Ivy John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.305), the Supplementary Cabinet was 'a cabinet which Ruskin placed in the School but did not fill'; the examples which they listed were placed there shortly before their catalogue was published in 1906.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 380 x 270 mm
- Inscription
- Verso, 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 1878; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.SUP.173
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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. 268
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 297
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. Supplementary no. 173
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
297.Placed here temporarily; being the only example I have here of Winter-study. I hope to do a better one for this place in the series. But there is enough here to show how pleasant Drawings may be, with no more help to their picturesque effect than a little ivy.
