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Two Thrushes and their Nest Christiaan Sepp

  • Details

    Artist/maker
    Christiaan Sepp (c. 1700 - 1775) (engraver)
    Jan Christiaen Sepp (1739 - 1811) (engraver)
    Object type
    print
    Material and technique
    watercolour over engraving on laid paper
    Dimensions
    419 x 282 mm (plate); 446 x 321 mm (sheet)
    Inscription
    Recto:
    lettered within the plate, top centre: TURDUS, junco, minor.
    top left, just within the plate, in ink: 204

    Verso:
    top left, in graphite: Nederland Vol II Plate 2
    just below, in graphite: R/1/86
    bottom left, the Ruskin School's stamp
    Provenance

    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.RUD5.RUD.186
  • Subject terms allocated by curators:

    Subjects

    animal

    bird

    thrush (Turdus)

  • References in which this object is cited include:

    References

    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. 181-187

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 181-187

    Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 181-187

Location

    • Western Art Print Room

Arts and Humanities Research Council

University of Oxford

The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art

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