Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 3rd ed. (1872)
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Study of Part of the Trees in Turner's "Crossing the Brook" John Ruskin
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R|294} Study of part of the trees in Turner’s Crossing the Brook. Neutral tint. M. -
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- Artist/maker
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)after Turner (Joseph Mallord William Turner) (1775 - 1851)
- Object type
- drawing
- Material and technique
- watercolour and bodycolour over graphite on pale brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- 446 x 324 mm
- Inscription
- Recto, bottom left, in graphite: R296 [the '6' a later addition, over a '4' or '7']
- 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.294
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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. 221
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. 294, RUD.294
Penny, Nicholas, Ruskin's Drawings, Ashmolean - Christie's Handbooks (London: Phaidon, 1988), no. 8
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. 294
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercises Arranged for the Lower Drawing-School (London: Smith, Elder, 1872), cat. Rudimentary no. 294
Ruskin, John, Instructions in the Preliminary Exercise Arranged For the Lower Drawing-School (London: Spottiswoode, 1873), cat. Rudimentary no. 294
Ruskin, John, ‘Rudimentary Series 1878’, 1878, Oxford, Oxford University Archives, cat. Rudimentary no. 296
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. 294
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|294} Study of part of the trees in Turner’s Crossing the Brook. Neutral tint. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series 4th ed. (1872)
R|294} Study of part of the trees in Turner’s Crossing the Brook. Neutral tint. M. -
Ruskin's Rudimentary series, 5th ed. (1873)
R|294} Study of part of the trees in Turner’s Crossing the Brook. Neutral tint. M. -
Ruskin's revision to the Rudimentary series (1878)
now 294 296.Study from part of the group of Scotch Firs on the left of Turner’s great picture Crossing the Brook, to show its complexities of light and shade. The student cannot too long confine himself to such studies of Foliage in one R. tint. The moment he allows himself the pleasure of green colour he will begin to be satisfied that he has painted a Tree when he has merely laid on a splash of green, and he will be rewarded for his self-denial by pleasures in Winter-scenery nearly as great as other artists can receive from the richest Summer-verdure.
