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Recto: The Arms of the Baumgartner Family. Verso: Jason and Medea Jost Amman
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Jost Amman (1539 - 1591) (block cutter)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- woodcut and letterpress on laid paper
- Dimensions
- recto 126 x 100 mm (block); verso 119 x 98mm (block); 199 x 156 mm (sheet)
- Inscription
- Recto:
a heading followed by two columns above the image, and another two columns below the image: Baumartnerorum insignia. || Naturæ solertis opes demiror & srtem, | Hæc oculis lustro dum monumeuta [sic] meis. || Psytacus en viridis super ardua lilia plaudit, | Gutture magnanimus terret hianteleo. || Pauonum speculis sublimia cornua splendent, | Est galeæ, gemmis pulchra corona, decus. || Baugartnerorum sunt hæc insignia gentis, | Quæ veræ specimen nobilitatis habent.
bottom left, in graphite: 4
Verso:
a heading followed by two columns above the image, and another two columns below the image: IASON ET MEDEA. | Vidit vt Aesonidem Pagasæa puppe superbum | Phasia, heu cæcum pectore vulnus alit. || Pulsa sugit ratio, Violentia vincit amoris, | Et patriæ, & chari cura parentis abit. || Cla[m] delubra subit, cu[m]q[ue] hospite fœdera iungit, | Et patriæ immensas perfida prodit opes. || Flammiuomosq[ue] domat tauros, vigile[m]q[ue] drcaone[m], | Cum Minyisq[ue] audax hospita regna petit.
top right, in ink: 32
bottom right, in graphite: Ref 21
bottom left, 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.RUD.021
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
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. 15-021, RUD.015
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. 15-021
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 15-021
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. 15-021
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|15—R|21} Various coats-of-arms out of the Insignia Sacræ Cæsareæ Majestatis, Principum, Electorum, ac aliquot illustrissimarum familiarum, published at Francfort in 1629 . Seeinstructions on next page. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|15—R|21} Various coats-of-arms out of the Insignia Sacræ Cæsareæ Majestatis, Principum, Electorum, ac aliquot illustrissimarum familiarum, published at Francfort in 1629 . Seeinstructions on next page. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|15—R|21} Various coats-of-arms out of the Insignia Sacræ Cæsareæ Majestatis, Principum, Electorum, ac aliquot illustrissimarum familiarum, published at Francfort in 1629 . Seeinstructions on next page. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remain 15.-21.To be used for early pen-practice under M.r. Macdonald’s directions.
