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.
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18 is to have the strawbery leaf 24 put into it.
Then - 19-24 to be emptied & 25 has the rose.