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Study of the Colosseum and the Temple of Janus in Rome 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 pen and ink over graphite on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 221 x 141 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Lazio › Roma (Rome) › Rome › Colosseum › Colosseum (subject)
- Europe › Italy › Lazio › Roma (Rome) › Rome › Temple of Janus › Temple of Janus (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
top right, in ink: Qy. | joint | concealed | by weed
left, above centre, in ink over graphite: South North
right, above centre, in graphite: Janus - quadriform | 18th May 72
right, below centre, in ink: Q. sloped?
bottom left, in graphite: Coliseum, 19th May 72
written over this, in ink: Coliseum. | Lower story | outer wall. | 19th May 72
botom right, in graphite: (2)
in ink, several letters labelling parts of the drawings
Verso, centre, 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.b
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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.ii
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.
