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The Mountain Avens (Dryas octopetala) (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
- 133 x 158 mm (plate); 373 x 223 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the plate:
top left, in ink: 1
top right, engraved: Flora Danica Tab. XXXI.
outside the plate, in ink:
top left: R.239
just below, crossed out: 240
top centre: 1 . 32
top right: 31
just below: Conf. | 7. 1216
just below the plate, centre: Dryas Octopetala
Verso, towards bottom 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.239
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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. 239, RUD.239
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 25
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. I (1766), pl. 31
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. 239
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 239
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 239
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. 239
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
