Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
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Chain of Alps from Grenoble to Chamberi (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Ruskin text
R|163} The Alps of the Chartreuse. -
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- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher, engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 199 x 270 mm (sheet); 208 x 276 mm (mount)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
- Inscription
- Recto:
below the print, etched:
left: Drawn & Etched by I.M.W. Turner Esqr. R.A. P.P.
right: Engraved by W. Say Engraver to the Prince Regent & H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester
centre: CHAIN OF ALPS from Grenoble to Chamberi | May 23. 1812 by I.M.W. Turner Queen Ann Street West.
just above and to the right, in graphite: 10 1/4 x 7
bottom towards the right, in graphite: b
top, just right of centre, in graphite: 3
On the back of the mount:
lower left, in graphite: R163
just left of 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.167
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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. 167, RUD.167
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 49.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. 163
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 163
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 163
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 167
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. 167
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
163 167.The Alps of the Grande Chartreuse. Leaving the Bernese district we cross to that of Grenoble, and approach the Alps of Savoy under their terrific precipices of limestone above Chambéry. It is one of his greatest mountain-studies, wholly superb in its expression of the great plains at the foot of the Alps and of the vineyard and village life which they bound with pasturage and snow.
