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A Climbing Perch
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Details
- Object type
- Material and technique
- colour lithograph on wove paper, with a false plate mark
- Dimensions
- 91 x 180 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
upper left, lithographed: RÈGNE ANIMAL.
upper right, lithographed: Poissons. Pl. 74
just above the fish, lithographed: 1.
top right, in graphite: 2/C
Verso, top left, in graphite: 2C | 209
On a separate small paper label:
left, in graphite: was / R / 157
right, in ink: R/209
- 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.209.c
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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. 206, RUD.206
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. 206-213
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 206-213
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 206-213
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. 206-213
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)
The remaining examples are for temporary use, and not catalogued. They are from the last published edition of Curacci’s Natural History, except my study of shells, R|213, which will remain, but otherwise placed.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
The remaining examples are for temporary use, and not catalogued. They are from the last published edition of Curacci’s Natural History, except my study of shells, R|213, which will remain, but otherwise placed.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
The remaining examples are for temporary use, and not catalogued. They are from the last published edition of Curacci’s Natural History, except my study of shells, R|213, which will remain, but otherwise placed.
