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On the Rhine Turner
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Inscription
- Luhen
- 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.RUD.129
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Wilton, Andrew, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner (London: Academy Editions, 1979), no. 1330
Ruskin, John, The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series, in the Arrangement of 1873, ed. Robert Hewison (London: Lion and Unicorn Press, 1984), cat. Rudimentary no. 129, RUD.129
Herrmann, Luke, Ruskin and Turner: A Study of Ruskin as a Collector of Turner, Based on His Gifts to the University of Oxford: Incorporating a Catalogue Raisonné of the Turner Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (London: Faber & Faber, 1968), no. 83
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. Rudimentary no. 129
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 129
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 129
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 130
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. Rudimentary no. 129
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
R|129} On the Rhine. Sketch in colour for picture over pencil outline. Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|129} On the Rhine. Sketch in colour for picture over pencil outline. Turner. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|129} On the Rhine. Sketch in colour for picture over pencil outline. Turner. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
now 129 130.First beginning of a sketch in his great time, shewing how his method of work remained the same from first to last. Travellers who know the Rhine will easily recognise the scene; though it is a little disguised by the white clouds left between the hills, and to the forms R. of which more attention has been paid than to those of the buildings. The scrawled writing in the distance is unintelligible.
