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Iris Day & Haghe
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Day & Haghe (1834 - 1852) (lithographer)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour over lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 227 x 184 mm (stone); 284 x 211 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
top left, in ink: R | 229
top right, lithographed: Pl. 1.
beneath the flowers' stems, lithographed, from left to right: 1 2 3 4 5 6
bottom centre, lithographed: 1. Iris Caucasica._2. Iris Lusitanica._3. Iris Xiphioides. | 4. Iris Xiphium._5. Iris Persica._6. Iris Longifolius. [the names of numbers 1, 4, and 5 are underlined in graphite] | Day & Haghe Lithrs. to the Queen
Verso, bottom, towards 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.229
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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. 229, RUD.229
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. 229
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 229
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 229
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. 229
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|229} Irids. Mrs. Loudon’s Bulbous Plants. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|229} Irids. Mrs. Loudon’s Bulbous Plants.
R. 229. Group of Irids. (Mrs. Loudon.)I give you this especially for the pale Iris Persica, No.5, which was first brought into England by Charles the First’s Henrietta , and it has many characters belonging especially to the heraldic Fleur-de-lys. But the Iris Florentina, which I have drawn as well as I can, in Edu. 8, is the true Fleur-de-lys.
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|229} Irids. Mrs. Loudon’s Bulbous Plants.
R. 229. Group of Irids. (Mrs. Loudon.)I give you this especially for the pale Iris Persica, No.5, which was first brought into England by Charles the First’s Henrietta , and it has many characters belonging especially to the heraldic Fleur-de-lys. But the Iris Florentina, which I have drawn as well as I can, in Edu. 8, is the true Fleur-de-lys.
