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A Grass (from the Floræ Danicæ) anonymous Danish
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Details
- Artist/maker
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anonymous Danish (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 322 x 172 mm (plate); 370 x 226 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate, engraved: Flora Danica Tab. CCCXX.
above the plate, in ink:
left: R/230
centre, same hand: 311 . 454/3
right, same hand: 320
Verso, bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, recto:
in graphite: R/230
Verso: R230? or 1?
- 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.230
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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. 230, RUD.230
Oeder, George Christian, et al., Icones plantarum sponte nascentium in regnis Daniæ et Norvegiæ, in ducatibus Slesvici et Holsatiæ, ... Floræ Danicæ nomine inscriptum, 23 (Copenhagen: Claudius Philibertus, 1764-1883), vol. II (1766), pl. 320
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. 230-234
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 230-234
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 230-234
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. 230-234
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|230 to {R|234} Various Grasses. Floræ Danicæ. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|230 to {R|234} Various Grasses. Floræ Danicæ. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|230 to {R|234} Various Grasses. Floræ Danicæ.
