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Enlarged Photograph of an Eagle's Head on a Greek Coin from Elis Anonymous
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous (photographer)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- gelatin print
- Dimensions
- 493 x 345 mm
- Inscription
- On the back of the mount:
lower right, in graphite, written up the mount: Rud 50
right of centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.RUD.050
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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. 50, RUD.050
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. 50
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 50
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 50
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 50
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. 50
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|50} Greek Sculpture of Head of Eagle (coin of Elis, enlarged). P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|50} Greek Sculpture of head of Eagle (coin of Elis, enlarged). P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|50} Greek Sculpture of head of Eagle (coin of Elis, enlarged). P. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 50.To show the gradation of surface in fine Greek sculpture. Any student who can copy this approximately in either charcoal or sepia is a master of all that is technical in chiaroscuro.
