Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
Unpublished manuscript catalogue for proposed re-organisation of the Rudimentary series.
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Study of one of the Pinnacles of the Tomb of Mastino II della Scala, Verona John Ruskin
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R|97} Pencil sketch of one of the pinnacles and Statue of St. George, from Tomb of Can Signorio. (Pisan school). M. -
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- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 338 x 170 mm
- Associated place
- Inscription
- Recto:
below the upper profile, in graphite, crossed out in graphite: and v thick [?] | across gable
below the second profile from the top, in graphite: over and through | capital
below the second profile from the bottom, in graphite, in part truncated by the edge of the sheet: Through | triangle & with leaf | cusp. [struck through] cusp. | All of this | niche and [...] | small nich | of can Ma
right, towards bottom, in graphite: R97 | [...]
bottom left, in ink: + | 6 | R
- 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.097.a
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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. 039
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. 97.a, RUD.097.a
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. 97
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 97
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 97
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 97
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. 97
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|97} Pencil sketch of one of the pinnacles and Statue of St. George, from Tomb of Can Signorio. (Pisan school). M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|97} Pencil sketch of one of the pinnacles and Statue of St. George, from Tomb of Can Signorio. (Pisan school). M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|97} Pencil sketch of one of the pinnacles and Statue of St. George, from Tomb of Can Signorio. (Pisan school.) M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 96.The same monument, seen from the other side, showing the equestrian statue foreshortened in its grandest position, and the more elaborate, but far less noble, tomb of Can Signorio beyond. Relieved by sharp sunlight on the gable of the earlier tomb are seen the figures of Adam and Eve. I have somewhere stated, in consequence of the mistake of a too imaginative friend, that Eve has a lamb for her footstool. It is not so, though the irregularly broken clods of earth bear a curious accidental resemblance to the form R. of a couchant lamb.
