Browse: 1470 objects
© University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
- Reference URL
Actions
Study of a carved Ivy-leaf Pattern John Ruskin
-
Details
- Artist/maker
-
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- graphite, bodycolour and ink on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 261 x 386 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all bottom left, in graphite:
just below the main drawing, on the left of a small cross-section diagram: Section
just to the right of the drawing: other archivolt deeper
just below the section: order of berry & leaf PP. | counting from right to left, round arch | b2 bbb2b 222 b22 b2 b22 bb2
just below, with lines drawn up to indicate different sections of the preceding line: part bb2b drawn
just below the first word of the preceding line: [...]
below the small drawing of carved decoration at the bottom of the sheet: Part farther on
Verso, top left, in ink, written down the sheet: 25
On a separate rectangular paper label, in graphite: W.S.II.15
On a separate small square paper label, in graphite: 95
- 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.WS.II.15
-
Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
-
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. 324
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. II.15
Location
-
- Western Art Print Room
