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View from Stresa of the Beautiful Island (Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore) Gabriel Ludwig Lory
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Gabriel Ludwig Lory (1763 - 1840) (engraver)Mathias Gabriel Lory (1784 - 1846) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- watercolour over etching and aquatint on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 149 x 249 mm (plate); 182 x 271 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Rudolph Ackermann (1764 - 1834) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Lake Maggoire › Isola Bella › Isola Bella (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto, below the image, printed: VIEW FROM STRESA OF THE BEAUTIFUL ISLAND. | Pubd. at R. ACKERMANN'S REPOSITORY of ARTS, 101. Strand, 1820.
Verso:
top right, in graphite: R104
centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
On a separate paper label, apparently written in the following sequence:
left, in brush and ink, struck through in pen and ink: 110
centre, in ink, struck through in graphite: 54
right, in graphite: 1/4
- 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.104
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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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. 54
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 104
Ruskin, John, ‘Educational Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Educational no. 104
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. 104
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)
54 Isola Bella, from Stresa. Old coloured print. E -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
104. Isola Bella, from Stresa. Old coloured print. E -
Educational, manuscript (1878)
R 104.View from Stresa of the Beautiful Island, done by a man of no artistic genius but of most tender feeling and faithful conscience. The scene was one of the loveliest in Italy; it is now a desert of stone-quarries, a Babylon of new inns, and a ghastly cobweb of telegraph-posts and wires. God helping me out, I will draw a picture of it as it is, to be compared.
