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Engraving of the Vault and Wall of the Entrance Hall of the Villa Madama Johann Gotfried Gutensohn
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Johann Gotfried Gutensohn (1792 - 1844) (engraver)Joseph Thurmer (1789 - 1833) (engraver)after Giulio Romano (Pippi) (1499 - 1546) (sculptor)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over engraving on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 381 x 311 mm (plate); 492 x 342 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner (1801 - 1882) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Italy › Lazio › Roma (Rome) › Rome › Villa madama › Villa madama (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
engraved:
top right: 11.
the various images are identified by capital letters 'A' to 'E', and some are marked up with dimensions
to the left of the scale (which is numbered '1', '5', '10', '15' and '20'): Pieds
to the right of the scale: de Paris
bottom right: G.G. I.Th.
bottom, in two columns: Einzelne Theile von Verzierungen in der Halle | der Villa Madama. || Détails des Décorations du Portique de la Villa Madama.
in graphite:
just below the left-hand image: 11. Villa Madama.
just below: 11. Villa M.
top, towards left: 116 [below a horizontal line; probably originally reading: R/116]
Verso:
towards bottom left, in graphite: Rud 118
bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.RUD.118
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 118, RUD.118
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 115-119
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. Rudimentary no. 115-119
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|115–R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|115 – R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|115 – R|119} Examples of Decoration, designed by Raphael, Giulio Romano, and their scholars. The arts devoted entirely to the pleasure of the eye, and caprice of fancy: perfect in skill by the practice of ages; but now entirely destructive of morality, intellectual power, and national character. E.
