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Four Studies of Ling John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour, and pen and ink over graphite on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- 233 x 161 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, all in ink (Ruskin):
above the upper right-hand study: Fig 2
below the lower left-hand study: youngest lateral sprig .
below and to the right of the lower right-hand study: Lateral sprig | left.
bottom left: 9
just to the right: ling. Conf. F. 4. 677. | for stipule ['stipule' underlined twice]
Verso, top left, in graphite: 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.13
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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. 133
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
