Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
Items marked 'M' are drawings "by my own Hand" (by Ruskin), P are photographs, E engravings and A by Ruskin's Assistant, Arthur Burgess.
Catalogue of the Rudimentary series / 9. Birds / Colour & plumage R|200 to R|213. Exercises in colour with shade, on patterns of plumage and scale
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R|201} Study of Kingfisher, with dominant reference to colour. M.
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R|202} Study of Kingfisher, with dominant reference to shade, but local colour still kept note of, as an element of shade. M.
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R|203} Feather of Kingfisher’s back, enlarged. Rough study in colour and shade. M.
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R|204} At the top, feathers of the Kingfisher’s wing and head, enlarged; beneath, a group of the wing feathers, real size. Studies in colour and shade. M.
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R|205} Extremity of a wing feather, much magnified, showing the way its light is laid on the brown ground; and one of the filaments of the feather of the back, R|203 highly magnified. M.
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The remaining examples are for temporary use, and not catalogued. They are from the last published edition of Curacci’s Natural History, except my study of shells, R|213, which will remain, but otherwise placed.
