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Love bringing Alcestis back from the Grave Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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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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Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour, black and coloured chalks on paper
- Dimensions
- 1340 x 1350 mm (sight size)
- 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.WAL.03
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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. 2 (on p. 2)
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Wall no. 2 (on p. 2)
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Wall no. 2 (on p. 2)
Whiteley, Jon, Oxford and the Pre-Raphaelites, Ashmolean - Christie's Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1989), no. 23, no. 23
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
