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Two Studies of Heather 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.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- pen and ink over graphite on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 123 x 176 mm
- Inscription
- Recto (Ruskin):
details of each study are labelled in ink, written over graphite, 'a', 'b' and 'c'; an additional graphite 'b' has been crossed out at the upper left of the right-hand study
immediately below the studies, in graphite: B
lower right, in graphite: A above B. wood | rubbing out all pencil | as well as you can
Verso:
top right, in graphite: P308 lower
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
just to the right, in ink: M.54
- 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.12
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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. 132
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
