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Photograph of a Study of Drapery for a seated Figure by Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci
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Details
- Artist/maker
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after Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 251 x 216 mm (photograph); 303 x 220 mm (original mount)
- Inscription
- All on the mount:
Recto, top left, in ink: R | 58
Verso:
upper left, in graphite: Leonardo Da Vinci
centre, in ink, struck through in graphite: 81
bottom, towards right, in graphite: R58
bottom left, 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.058
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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. 58, RUD.058
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. 58
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 58
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 58
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 58
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. 58
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|58} Study of drapery, by Lionardo. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|58} Study of drapery, by Lionardo. P. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|58} Study of drapery, by Lionardo. P. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 58.This photograph represents the original drawing with great exactitude, and the original drawing is an admitted standard among artists of a complete study R. of drapery on dark ground, with body-colour white; but more pains have been taken with it than the subject is worth - Leonardo having lost much of his true life and gained much of his false fame by doing mean things in an ostentatiously complete manner.
