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The Head of a Clergyman: enlarged Drawing from Lützelburger's Woodcut of "The Clergyman", from the Series of "Images of Death" John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)Hans Lützelburger (c. 1495 - 1526) (block cutter)after Hans Holbein the Younger (1497 - 1543) (designer)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- ink and brush over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 279 x 306 mm
- Inscription
- Verso:
above and left of centre, in graphite: E. 227.
bottom right, the Ruskin School's stamp
- 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.227
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Taylor, Gerald, ‘John Ruskin: A Catalogue of Drawings by John Ruskin in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, 7 fascicles, 1998, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, no. 223
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. X.3.A
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 227
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. 227
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)
3 A The Giver of False Comfort. Enlarged from Holbein. M -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
227. The Giver of False Comfort. Enlarged from Holbein. M
