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Print of the Decoration on a Greek Amphora, showing Poseidon accompanied by Dolphins P. Bineteau
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Curator’s description:
Description
The lithograph shows Poseidon, with a fish's tail. He is surrounded by dolphins, and a patch of very stylised seaweed. It reproduces the decoration of a black-figure amphora then in the Königlich Museum in Berlin. The print was plate XXXV in the third volume of Lenormant and de Witte's "Elite des monuments céramographiques", published in 1858. It was presumably taken from Ruskin's copy of the work now preserved in the Ruskin Library (inventory no. 1996B2621), which is missing many of its plates.
The print was first catalogued by Ruskin in 1871, when it appeared as no 23 G in the Educational Series, entitled "Poseidon, as the foam of the sea wave", and accompanying a series of plates from Lenormant and de Witte in Case II, "Elementary Illustrations of Greek Design". It remained in the same position, although renumbered as no. 45, in the 1874 catalogue of the series, but does not appear in Ruskin's 1878 reorganisation of the series.
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Details
- Artist/maker
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P. Bineteau (active c. 1857 - c. 1858) (printer)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 91 x 169 mm (stone); 220 x 348 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- All printed, just outside the border of the image:
top left: T. III
top right: PL. XXXV.
bottom left: Lith de P. Bineteau
Recto, manuscript:
bottom right, running down the sheet, in ink: 35
bottom left, in graphite (recent): E45
bottom, right of centre, graphite, beneath a sketch of the image's outline: Cut mount to take [?]
Verso, top right, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate small paper label, in ink: 23. G
- 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.ED.045
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 23.G
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 45
Lenormant, Charles, and Jean de Witte, Elite des monuments céramographiques: Matériaux pour l'histoire des religions et des moeurs de l'antiquité, 4 vols in 8 (Paris: Leleux, 1844-1861), vol. III, pl. XXXV
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. Educational no. 45
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
23 G Poseidon, as the foam of sea wave. ( Le Normand ). E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
45. Poseidon, as the foam of sea wave. (Le Normand). E
