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Photograph of Holbein's drawing of a Woman from Basel, walking to the left Anonymous, Swiss
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Anonymous, Swiss (Anonymous, Swiss) (photographer)after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 274 x 189 mm (print); 336 x 252 mm (mount)
- Inscription
- All on the mount:
Front:
bottom left, in graphite: R75
bottom right, in ink: Duplicate
Back:
left, towards bottom, in graphite: R.75
bottom left, 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.075
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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. 75, RUD.075
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. 75
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 75
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 75
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 75
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. 75
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|75} Fancy sketch of costume, in pen with sepia, by Holbein. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|75} Fancy sketch of costume, in pen with sepia, by Holbein. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|75} Fancy sketch of costume, in pen with sepia, by Holbein. P. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 75.The original drawing of Holbein is one of the best at Basle, and the photograph is enough to express its general character. In the use of the blunt pen and watercolour wash nothing can surpass it, & I strongly recommend this method of study to all advanced students, as distinguished from all merely linear or merely watercolour work. Etching is vainly laborious in comparison and water-colour uncertain; while the introduction of local colour in this study, distinguishing it from the similar work of the school of Mantegna, renders the method applicable to every subject.
