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Drawing of a Branch of Oak from Cima's "Saint John the Baptist with Saints Peter, Mark, Jerome and Paul" John Ruskin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Cima da Conegliano (1459/60 - ?1518)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- bodycolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 475 x 335 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in graphite (recent): R287 cf Ed 20
Verso:
top left, in ink, crossed out in ink: 21
just below, in ink: 23
centre, below top, in graphite, crossed out in graphite: Edu 12. Oak Cima
below, in graphite: 12
towards 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.287
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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. 148
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. 287, RUD.287
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. 287
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 287
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 287
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 287
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. 287
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|287} Branch of oak. Study from Cima da Conegliano. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|287} Branch of oak. Study from Cima da Conegliano. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|287} Branch of oak. Study from Cima da Conegliano. M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
287.But here we have perfect Composition, and perfect Oak as well. This spray is one of Cima’s, behind the St. John the Baptist in the church of St. Mary of the Garden. Each leaf is drawn by the great master virtually with one touch of the brush, modifying it at its edge with R. the same care that a Florentine Master gives to his penned outline, such visible outline being an essential characteristic in the best Florentine schools, as the absence of it in the best Venetian. I have painted this Spray only in sepia that it may be more easily copied by young students.
