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View over a City John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
The sketch looks down over a row of cypress trees to a city, which Taylor suggests is Rome.
This drawing is on similar paper to the preceding work (now the nineteenth of the unframed examples), and they may both have been removed from a sketch-book. Taylor suggests a date of April or May 1874, as Ruskin stayed in Rome between 16 and 18 April and 4 and 20 May 1874 (apart from one day in Assisi).
Although not mentioned in any of Ruskin's catalogues of the collection, Cook and Wedderburn listed both drawings amongst the unframed examples in 1906, describing them as 'two landscape sketches (hurried pencil memoranda)' (XXI.308). 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 for the purposes of the current catalogue.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 177 x 260 mm
- Associated place
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- The Roman World › Italy › Italia › Rome › Rome (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in graphite: 2 B
Verso:
bottom left, in graphite: p.308 Pkt A.6. lower
centre, printed on feint ruled paper, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, also on the feint ruled paper, in ink: M34
- Provenance
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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.20
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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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. 283
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
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
