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Recto: Study of a Shell. Verso: Two Diagrams of Cylinders drawn in Perspective John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- recto, watercolour and bodycolour over graphite; verso, graphite, all on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 198 x 278 mm
- Inscription
- Verso (the sheet aligned vertically), all in graphite:
below the left-hand diagram: six feet | away. | 4 in in | diameter . | a foot under | sight
below the right-hand diagram: 3 ft away
left, above centre, written up the sheet: WS II 32
- 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.II.32
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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. 326
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.32
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
