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Drawing of a Mosaic of the Virgin Mary, supposedly from the Choir of the Cathedral, Ravenna Anonymous
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Curator’s description:
Description
As the unframed examples had not been given an order by Ruskin, they have been given arbitrary accession numbers based upon their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list of the unframed objects ( XXI.308) for the purposes of the current catalogue.
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Details
- Artist/maker
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 434 x 290 mm
- Inscription
- Recto:
within the image, either side of the Virgin's head: S[AN]C[T]A. MARIA.
numerous inscriptions in the border, in graphite, usually very faint:
top, from the left: FRAGMENT OF ANCIENT MOSAIC DECORATION OF CATHEDRAL CHOIR WALL
just below and to the right: NOW IN ARCHBISOPS [sic] CHAPEL | ALLASKEW [sic] OVER THE ALTAR
to either of the very top of the image: CANOPY WANTING
just below, again to either side of the image: C[U]RTAIN WANTING
to the left of the image, centre: (PILAS|TER | WANT|ING
to the right of the image, centre: PI|LAS|TER | WANT|ING)
just below the image, centre: FEET WANTING
bottom left: INSCRIPTION | WANTING
bottom centre: [...] CVNCTORV PS [...] | MISERERE T, ORV
bottom right: (See | Metropolitana di Ravenna | del Cav. Buonamici | Bologna 1748)
bottom left corner (recent): Bell MS B 6
just above and to the right, over the fainter inscriptions bottom left and bottom centre (recent): Wedderburn & Cook p. 308
- Provenance
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Presumably presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford); first recorded in the Ruskin Drawing School in 1906; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum c.1949
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.UF.02
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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: 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. Unframed
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
