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Enlarged Drawing of Part of the Ornament on an Etruscan Cup John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- lampblack over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 261 x 373 mm
- Inscription
- Verso:
upper left, in graphite, written down the page: R.56.
just above, 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.056
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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. 197
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. 56, RUD.056
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. 56
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 56
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 56
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 56
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. 56
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|56} Part of ornament of Etruscan cup, enlarged. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|56} Part of ornament of Etruscan cup, enlarged. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|56} Part of ornament of Etruscan cup, enlarged. M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 56.As far as I have not done this rightly, on my eyes be it, but there is enough in the drawing to show the quality of the minute drawing ornament, viz the filling of spaces with a quantity, equal on the average everywhere. of beautifully curved lines and spaces. Every one of the lines here is springy and vital, and the outline of any of the spaces would be a beautiful one in itself for any cutting instrument, knife, or lance, or hatchet-head. This is the first quality of ornament in the work of nations who are going to be great. The design is in itself interesting as one of the earliest conceptions of the ‘Chime æra’. The caricature of projecting nose in the human figure is constant in archaic art.
