Browse: 1470 objects
© University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
- Reference URL
Actions
Sketch of the Head of a living Lion John Ruskin
-
Details
- Artist/maker
-
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 163 x 199 mm
- Provenance
-
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.RUD.047
-
Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
-
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. 161
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 47, RUD.047
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 47
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 47
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 47
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 47
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. Rudimentary no. 47
Location
-
- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
-
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|47} Sketch of head of living Lion. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|47} Sketch of head of living Lion. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|47} Sketch of head of living Lion. M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remainsremains 47.A really good sketch of my own which may serve to show that I could have done something if I had not had books to write. It is to be copied by all advanced students as an exercise in fast pencil drawing.
