Ruskin's Standard & Reference series (1872)
Exemplary works of art. In the catalogue of the Reference series, items marked 'M' are drawings "by my own Hand" (by Ruskin), P are photographs, E engravings and A by Ruskin's Assistant, Arthur Burgess.
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Sketch of a Spandril in the western Porch of Bourges Cathedral John Ruskin
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R|81} Sketch of Spandril in Western Porch, Bourges. M. -
Details
- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite, and pen and ink, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 321 x 283 mm
- Associated place
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- Europe › France › Centre › Bourges › Bourges Cathedral › Bourges Cathedral (subject)
- Inscription
- Verso:
bottom, towards right, the Ruskin School's stamp
just to the right, in graphite (recent): R.81
- 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.081
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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. 218
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. 81, RUD.081
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. 81
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 81
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 81
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 81
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. 81
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|81} Sketch of Spandril in Western Porch, Bourges. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|81} Sketch of Spandril in Western Porch, Bourges. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|81} Sketch of Spandril in Western Porch, Bourges. M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 81.Rough sketch of the foliage filling a spandrill on the front of Bourges Cathedral; out and out the best work I have ever seen in Northern architecture in the xiiit.h. Century. The subject is enlarged and completed by Mr. Burgess in the drawing placed in the second recess of the school - omitting the figure of Eve which would have drawn the attention from the foliage and was too much defaced to be itself delightful. Its relation to the leafage and tempting dragon is sufficiently indicated in my sketch; which also preserves somewhat more the massive look of the real stone-work than Mr. Burgess’ study , which is the least bit too sharp in the leaf edges, though in their actions and gradation admirable. Both my sketch and his drawing were en R. larged from the photograph placed in the standard series, No.
