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.
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 167
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. 202, RUD.202
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. 202
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 202
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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. 202
To be drawn with BB pencil, on standard white, and touched with common ink, nothing else.
The object of this study is to enable you to use a BB pencil as if it were black paint; gradating with it rapidly. The use of the ink is to define essential lines which the dusty pencil is apt to lose; and to secure blacks that do not shine.
To be drawn with BB pencil, on standard white, and touched with common ink, nothing else.
The object of this study is to enable you to use a BB pencil as if it were black paint; gradating with it rapidly. The use of the ink is to define essential lines which the dusty pencil is apt to lose; and to secure blacks that do not shine.