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© University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum
Photograph of Ghiberti's East Door of Florence Baptistery ("The Gates of Paradise") Fratelli Alinari
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Details
- Artist/maker
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- Object type
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photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 545 x 408 mm
- Associated place
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- Inscription
- Recto:
bottom right, presumably written upon the negative and therefore printing white: [...]616
just to the right, blind stamped: FRATELLI ALINARI | FIRENZE | [...] NAZIONALE
Verso, bottom centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.REF.136
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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. Reference no. 136