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Recto: The Arms of the Baumgartner Family. Verso: Jason and Medea Jost Amman

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Jost Amman (1539 - 1591) (block cutter)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    woodcut and letterpress on laid paper
    Dimensions
    recto 126 x 100 mm (block); verso 119 x 98mm (block); 199 x 156 mm (sheet)
    Inscription
    Recto:
    a heading followed by two columns above the image, and another two columns below the image: Baumartnerorum insignia. || Naturæ solertis opes demiror & srtem, | Hæc oculis lustro dum monumeuta [sic] meis. || Psytacus en viridis super ardua lilia plaudit, | Gutture magnanimus terret hianteleo. || Pauonum speculis sublimia cornua splendent, | Est galeæ, gemmis pulchra corona, decus. || Baugartnerorum sunt hæc insignia gentis, | Quæ veræ specimen nobilitatis habent.
    bottom left, in graphite: 4

    Verso:
    a heading followed by two columns above the image, and another two columns below the image: IASON ET MEDEA. | Vidit vt Aesonidem Pagasæa puppe superbum | Phasia, heu cæcum pectore vulnus alit. || Pulsa sugit ratio, Violentia vincit amoris, | Et patriæ, & chari cura parentis abit. || Cla[m] delubra subit, cu[m]q[ue] hospite fœdera iungit, | Et patriæ immensas perfida prodit opes. || Flammiuomosq[ue] domat tauros, vigile[m]q[ue] drcaone[m], | Cum Minyisq[ue] audax hospita regna petit.
    top right, in ink: 32
    bottom right, in graphite: Ref 21
    bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    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.021
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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. 15-021, RUD.015

    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. 15-021

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021

    Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021

    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. 15-021

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

Ruskin's Catalogues

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