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Study of a Lion on the Tomb of Frederick II at Palermo John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 195 x 131 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Sicilia (Sicily) › Palermo › Palermo › Palermo Duomo › Palermo Duomo (Tomb of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, Ruskin:
right, below centre, in graphite: head of Lion b. thus founded | on Gorgon
continued on the same line in ink: The teeth are dark on the surface | the lights are incisions
continued after a sketch of the teeth: The sharp teeth fitting | into each other
Verso, right, below centre, in graphite: Right
- 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.WS.I.49.b
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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. 281.ii
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. Working Series no. I.49
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
