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Carex acuta
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Details
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on paper
- Dimensions
- 215 x 101 mm (plate); 237 x 137 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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James Sowerby (1740 - 1803) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto, within the plate, engraved:
top right: 580.
bottom centre: April 1, 1799 Published by J. Sowerby London.
above the plate, left, in ink: R 235
Verso, bottom centre, 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.235
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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. 235, RUD.235
Sowerby, James, and J. E. Smith, English Botany, 36 (London: J. Davis, 1790-1814), vol. IX (1799), pl. 580
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. 235
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 235
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 235
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. 235
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|235} Carex acuta. Sowerby’s English Botany. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|235} Carex acuta. Sowerby’s English Botany. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|235} Carex acuta. Sowerby’s English Botany.
