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Three Shields carrying Arms, said by Ruskin to be those of King Edward the Martyr, King Ethelred the Unready, and King Edmund Ironside John Ruskin
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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.
The arms are impossible to identify with certainty, as the Saxon and Norman kings of England only acquired arms in later centuries, when they were retrospectively and inconsistently assigned them by early heralds.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 397 x 285 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in graphite:
top left: 1551. Spectacles | at Rouen before
just to the right: Henry II & Cath de Medici
top right: Guignières ill. 55
bottom: Edward the Martyr Ethelred the Unready and Old Ironside
Verso:
towards bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
just below, in ink: M. 56
just below, in graphite (recent): p. 308
- 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.UF.08
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 252
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
