Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
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Water Mill (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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R|152} Water-Mill (Pembury Mill, Exterior). -
Details
- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)Robert Dunkarton (1744 - 1811/17) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 208 x 288 mm (plate); 302 x 442 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: P
bottom left: Drawn & Etched by J.M.W. Turner
bottom right: Engraved by R. Dunkarton
bottom centre: WATER MILL | Published Feby. 1. 1812, by J.M.W. Turner, Queen Ann Street West
bottom right, in ink: 17
Verso:
top right, in ink: 152 152 [the first '152' struck though]
bottom left, in graphite: R.158
centre, 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.158
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References
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. 152, RUD.152
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 37.I
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. 152
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 152
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 152
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 158
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. 158
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|152} Water-Mill (Pembury Mill, Exterior). -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|152} Water-Mill (Pembury Mill, Exterior). -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|152} Water-Mill (Pembury Mill, Exterior). -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
152. 158. Water MillIt is pleasant to pass from the stormy sea to this piece of Rustic life in which the repose of its natural tenor is sinking into the natural repose of decay. The etching of it will be found in the Educational Series. It being one of the most splendid in the Book is given as a study for advanced students. By a reference to it we shall find the dog to be a subsequent idea: he is not in the etching and even now is much more of an idea than a dog. Most likely the R. engraver came to show the Proof when Turner was tired - the Painter felt something was wanting, put in a black pencil-scratch where he wanted it and told the Engraver to make the scratch into - a dog.
