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Study of Carved Foliage on the Tomb of Eleanor of Castile in Westminster Abbey John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 291 x 418 mm (sheet); 303 x 422 mm (mount)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Greater London › City of Westminster Borough › Westminster › Westminster Abbey › Westminster Abbey (Tomb of Eleanor of Castile, subject)
- Inscription
- Verso:
towards to left, in graphite, upside down (recent): Ruskin R. 78 | formerly R 99
bottom right, 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.078
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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. 241
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. 78, RUD.078
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. 78
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 78
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 78
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 79
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. 78
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|78} Study from foliage on tomb of Eleanor of Castile. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|78} Study from foliage on tomb of Eleanor of Castile. M.
R. 78. Study from leaves on tomb of Eleanor of Castile.Do any small piece of this for exercise in finer tones.
A little white is mixed with the neutral tint over the pencil in this drawing.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|78} Study from foliage on tomb of Eleanor of Castile. M.
R. 78. Study from leaves on tomb of Eleanor of Castile.Do any small piece of this for exercise in finer tones.
A little white is mixed with the neutral tint over the pencil in this drawing.
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
79.I meant to make this drawing as good as I could, and have taken so much pains with it that I have lost the pleasantness of ease without reaching the point of completion. As an example of English xivth century sculpture, the original in Westminster Abbey, defaced though it be, is still unsurpassable.
