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Berry Pomeroy Castle (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.305), the Supplementary Cabinet was 'a cabinet which Ruskin placed in the School but did not fill'; the examples which they listed were placed there shortly before their catalogue was published in 1906.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer)Henry Edward Dawe (1790 - 1848) (etcher)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 213 x 289 mm (plate); 299 x 440 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › United Kingdom › England › Devon › Berry Pomeroy › Berry Pomeroy Castle › Berry Pomeroy Castle (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
bottom, towards right, recent: F58
bottom, right, recent: WA.RS.SUP.161
Verso:
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: T.8
- 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.SUP.161
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 58.E
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. 172
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 172
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 172
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 294
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. Supplementary no. 161
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|172} Raglan Castle. Engraved by Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|172} Raglan Castle. Engraved by Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|172} Raglan Castle. Engraved by Turner. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
294.For the next stage of completion the etchings of the Liber Studorium show us the preparation which Turner himself made - accurate indication, namely, of every outline, and of the principal shadows, with the pen, before washing with Sepia. The student cannot too often copy the beautiful Etching here given. It affords instances of every kind of touch necessary for the expression of Foliage in Middle Distance, and a beautiful piece of more retiring Forest R. above the stream. The tendency of most, inexperienced, students is always to lose the relations of distance in showers of leafage or gleams of sunshine; but in all great Landscape-work the relative distances of Forest-forms are as determined as, in good architectural work, those of the houses in a street or the pillars of a temple.
