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© Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and the Estate of T.M. Rooke
Drawing of Mosaics in the Vault of the Chancel of San Vitale, Ravenna Thomas Matthews Rooke
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Details
- Artist/maker
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- Object type
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drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour, bodycolour and gold paint over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 408 x 521 mm
- Associated place
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- Inscription
- Recto, both in graphite (Rooke?):
top, towards right: à | J. Ruskin Esq | Coniston, Brantwood, Lancashire, England
right, towards top: da | TM Rooke | Ravenna | 4
- 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.166
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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. 166