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Photograph of Filippo Lippi's "Virgin Annunciate" and "Announcing Angel" Anonymous Italian

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Anonymous Italian (Anonymous, Italian) (photographer)
    after Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 - 1469)
    Object type
    photograph
    Material and technique
    albumen print
    Dimensions
    242 x 191 mm (print); 300 x 219 mm (mount)
    Inscription
    Within the photograph, bottom right, apparently written on the negative and so printing white: 324

    On the back of the mount:
    centre, in graphite: (11) Eleven
    just to the right, the Ruskin School's stamp

    On a separate small paper label, in graphite: 49
    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.ED.097
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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. 47

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 97

    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. Educational no. 97

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

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Ruskin's Catalogues

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