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A Study of Greek clay Cantharus John Ruskin
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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 with scratching out on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 246 x 359 mm
- Inscription
- Verso:
right, near bottom, in graphite (recent): '2 cups' in pencil | (? R's hand) on back | of old mount : | also numbered | 121 ['121' underlined] in pencil | R. 53 | 18 - 5 - 70
just below, 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.053
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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. 193
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. 53, RUD.053
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. 53
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 53
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 53
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 53
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. 53
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|53} Study of Greek Clay Cantharus (not to be written Kantharos, in English, nor Acanthus, akanthos). M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|53} Study of Greek clay cantharus (not to be written kantharos, in English, nor acanthus, akanthos The barbarous practice of spelling Greek words in the Greek manner when they occur in the writing of English, was, I believe, first introduced by Mr. Grote, and in his case meant merely that his knowledge of Greek sat uneasily upon him. I shall never have enough, myself, to feel a like discomfort; but am in this the better representative of the majority of English readers, in whose name I resolutely decline to have Socrates spelt for me with a k, and a pair of compasses over the o to remind me it is a long one. ).M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|53} Study of Greek clay cantharus (not to be written kantharos, in English, nor acanthus, akanthos The barbarous practice of spelling Greek words in the Greek manner when they occur in the writing of English, was, I believe, first introduced by Mr. Grote, and in his case meant merely that his knowledge of Greek sat uneasily upon him. I shall never have enough, myself, to feel a like discomfort; but am in this the better representative of the majority of English readers, in whose name I resolutely decline to have Socrates spelt for me with a k, and a pair of compasses over the o to remind me it is a long one. ).M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 53.Rapid study of Greek cantharus‘cantharus’, to show the best method of drawing Greek vases. No more work ought ever to be put on a drawing of them than is used here. The skill of the draughtsman is to be shown in drawing the right curves with the edge of his wash, and in getting true chiaroscuro with little trouble. A thoroughly good artist would have got it with less work than is used here, but average students need not expect to do so.
