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.
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I now take, for more completion, the two upper groups only from the last sketch, and carry them forward into Middle Tint, leaving nothing now but the high lights blank. Compare the Photograph for authority. Such a study as this is all that is necessary, in working from Nature, to carry away the composition of leaves; but it is an exercise of intense difficulty, and the best Masters may be proud when they can do what they want in such manner with ease.