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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Sepia Sketch of Leafage, further carried: Study from Ruskin's Photograph of the Courtyard of a late Gothic wooden House at Abbeville John Ruskin
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Ruskin text
R|291} The same leaves, farther carried. -
Details
- Artist/maker
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after John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) (artist, photographer)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 153 x 173 mm
- 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.291
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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. 220
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. 291, RUD.291
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. 291
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 291
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 291
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 291
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. 291
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|291} The same leaves, farther carried. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|291} The same leaves, farther carried. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|291} The same leaves, farther carried. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
remains 291.I now take, for more completion, the two upper groups only from the last sketch, and carry them forward into Middle Tint, leaving nothing now but the high lights blank. Compare the Photograph for authority. Such a study as this is all that is necessary, in working from Nature, to carry away the composition of leaves; but it is an exercise of intense difficulty, and the best Masters may be proud when they can do what they want in such manner with ease.
