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Still Life with earthenware Pitcher, Coffee Pot and Basket William Henry Hunt
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Details
- Artist/maker
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William Henry Hunt (1790 - 1864)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 170 x 252 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom right, in watercolour: W. HUNT
- 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.059
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 59, RUD.059
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. 59
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 59
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 59
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 59
Witt, John, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864): Life and Work, with a Catalogue (London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1982), no. 684, colour pl. 21
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. 59
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Glossary
earthenware
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earthenware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1000-1200⁰c. The resulting ceramic is non-vitreous and varies in colour from dark red to yellow.
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|59} Study of earthenware pitcher. W. Hunt. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|59} Study of earthenware pitcher. W. Hunt. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|59} Study of earthenware pitcher. W. Hunt. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 59.Put beside the Leonardo, partly to exhibit the completion of the older work by contrast with the imperfection of the modern, which in this case has probably been hurried, either as a lesson or for sale, but principally because the painting of the coffee-pot and brown jug is as good as such objects deserve and insuperably good in the intelligent variety of local and reflected colour. All students are to copy the coffee-pot as soon as they are able. The form of the brown jug is also a useful example of the kind of curves and proportions which are essentially vulgar as compared with outlines like those of the Greek vases in No. 51.
