Study of Dawn: purple Clouds
Details
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Title
Study of Dawn: purple Clouds
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Artist/maker
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) -
Associated place
Denmark Hill (subject) -
Date
March 1868
rule of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1900) -
Material and technique
watercolour and bodycolour over faint graphite lines on blue-grey paper
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 15.3 x 22.3 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA.RS.ED.005
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Further reading
Tate Britain, Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, Robert Hewison, Ian Warrell and Stephen Wildman (London, 2000), p. 267, illus. p. 267 fig. 250
Herring, Sarah, ‘Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphelites’, Apollo Magazine: March 2001, (2001), illus. p. 50 fig. 3
Shepherd Rupert, ‘The Elements of Drawing: An Online Version of John Ruskin's Teaching Collection at the Ashmolean’, (2004), illus. p. 25
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