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Drawing of Luini's fresco of "Saint Catherine of Alexandria" John Ruskin
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Curator’s description:
Description
Cook and Wedderburn listed a series of works presented by Ruskin 'on the Walls of the School, or standing on cabinets, etc.' (XXI.300). These were unnumbered, and have been given arbitrary accession numbers, based on their position in Cook and Wedderburn's list, for the purposes of the current catalogue.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Bernardino Luini (1480/85 - 1532)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour and pen and ink over graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 1880 x 970 mm
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; removed by Ruskin; Joan Severn; presented by Joan Severn c.1904 in exchange for six leaves from the Psalter and Hour
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.WAL.01
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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. 085
Ruskin, John, Instructions in Practice of Elementary Drawing, Arranged with Reference to the First Series of Examples in the Drawings Schools of the University of Oxford (n.p., [1872]), cat. Wall no. 1 (on p. 2)
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Wall no. 1 (on p. 2)
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Wall no. 1 (on p. 2)
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. Wall
Location
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- currently in research collection
