Ashmolean − The Elements of Drawing, John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford

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Curator’s description:

Description

As the unframed examples had not been given an order by Ruskin, they have been given arbitrary accession numbers based upon their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list of the unframed objects (XXI308) for the purposes of the current catalogue.
Details
Artist/maker

John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)

Object type

drawing

Material and technique

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

124 x 202 mm
Associated place
- Europe › France › Picardy › Laon › Laon Cathedral › Laon Cathedral (subject)
Inscription

Recto:
bottom left, in graphite (Ruskin): Laon. 14th Augt.82 JR
top right, in ink: 2

Provenance

Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949

No. of items

1

Accession no.

WA.RS.UF.06.a
Subject terms allocated by curators:

Subjects

building

sculpture
References in which this object is cited include:

References

Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 318

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. Unframed