Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd 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.
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Lauffenbourgh on the Rhine (from the Liber Studiorum) Turner
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Ruskin text
R|170} Lauffenbourg on the Rhine. -
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- Artist/maker
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Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851) (designer, etcher)Thomas Hodgetts (active 1801 - 1846) (engraver)
- Object type
- Material and technique
- etching and mezzotint on paper
- Dimensions
- 200 x 287 mm (plate); 293 x 429 mm (sheet)
- Associated people
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Turner Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775 - 1851) (publisher)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Germany › Baden-Wurtenburg › Laufenburg › Laufenburg (subject)
- Europe › Rhine › Rhine (subject)
- Inscription
- Recto:
all within the plate mark, etched:
top centre: A
bottom left: Drawn. & Etched by J.M.W. Turner. R.A. P.P.
bottom right: Engraved by T Hodgetts
bottom centre: LAUFFENBOURGH on the RHINE. | Published Jany. 1.1811, by Mr. Turner, Queen Ann Street West.
bottom left: H
bottom right, in graphite, running down the sheet: 66
Verso:
within the plate mark, bottom right, in graphite: J.A [?]
bottom left, 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.165
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References in which this object is cited include:
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. 170, RUD.170
Finberg, Alexander J., The History of Turner's Liber Studiorum: With a New Catalogue Raisonné (London: Ernest Benn, 1924), no. 31.IV?
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. 170
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 170
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 170
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 165
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. 165
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)
170 165.Lauffenbourg . These first rapids of the Rhine, below the fall of Schaffausen , are the grandest piece of running water, I suppose, to be seen in Europe. How Turner came to tame them down into this little riband of streaming light, and to reduce the R. really magnificent bridge (of which I have placed my own line-for-line study in the Reference Series) to this mere footway, with a field-railing along it, passes all the caprice yet traced by me in his character. Narrowed and tamed though it be, the student will learn more of Swiss character by studying this Plate, without moving from the room, than he probably would in reality by travelling on the Rail-road past the spot where he might have got a glimpse of it just when he is getting the lunch-basket out from under the seat.
