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Study of the Colosseum John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 221 x 141 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom right, in graphite: (I)
Verso:
bottom right, in graphite: R101 (Left)
just to the right, in graphite (recent): 18-5-70 See Ed (1878) 29
bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1878; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.RUD.101bis.a
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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. 259.i
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 29
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. 101bis
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Educational, manuscript (1878)
29.Studies from the Coliseum and Temple of Janus at Rome , exhibiting, in the corruption of Greek Architecture, one more character in which our architects rarely believe the free-handed drawings of Curves. The mouldings in the Drawing on the right hand, round one of the arches of the Temple of Janus, are not thus distorted by my carelessness; they are so cut by E. the mason with the free chisel.
