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Little Devil's Bridge (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Curator’s description:
Description
According to Cook and Wedderburn (XXI.305), the Supplementary Cabinet was 'a cabinet which Ruskin placed in the School but did not fill'; the examples which they listed were placed there shortly before their catalogue was published in 1906.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 208 x 288 mm (plate); 251 x 340 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Charles Turner (1773 - 1857) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Switzerland › Reuss › Reuss (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P.
bottom right: Engraved by Chas. Turner
bottom centre: LITTLE DEVILS BRIDGE over the RUSS above ALLDORFT SWISSD. | London Published March 29. 1809. by C. Turner, No. 50, Warren Street Fitzroy Square.
bottom, towards right, in graphite (recent): F19I
just to the right, in graphite (recent): F19f?
bottom right, in ink: 106
Verso, bottom right, 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.SUP.165
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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, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 70
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 19.I?
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. Supplementary no. 165
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
70 The Devil’s Bridge, St. Gothard. ( Turner, Liber Studiorum). E
