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The Saint Jean d'Acre Pillars and the south-west Corner of Saint Mark's Basilica, Venice 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 purple wove paper
- Dimensions
- 164 x 103 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di San Marco › Basilica Cattedrale Patriachale di San Marco (subject)
- Europe › Italy › Veneto (Venetia) › Venice › Piazzetta di San Marco › Pilastri Acritani › Pilastri Acritani (subject)
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.SUP.174
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 306
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of Examples Arranged for Elementary Study in the University Galleries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1870), cat. Educational no. 27
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. 174
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Catalogue of Examples (1870)
27. South entrance of St. Mark’s, Venice. (R.)For practice in rapid laying of flat colour, observing the several tints in shade and sunshine.
