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Photograph of Filippo Lippi's "Adoration of the Infant Jesus" ("The Camaldoli Adoration") Fratelli Alinari

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Fratelli Alinari (active 1854 - 1920) (photographer)
    after Filippo Lippi (c. 1406 - 1469)
    Object type
    photograph
    Material and technique
    albumen print
    Dimensions
    228 x 195 mm (print); 379 x 283 mm (mount)
    Inscription
    Within the photograph:
    on the bottom of the painting's frame towards the right, apparently written on the negative and so printing white: 313.
    bottom right, blind-stamped: ALINARI

    On the back of the mount, centre, the Ruskin School's stamp

    On a separate, small, rectangular paper label, in ink: 48
    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.098
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

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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. 48

    Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 98

    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. 98

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Position in Ruskin’s Collection

Ruskin's Catalogues

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