Instinct to Draw - John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Wildman Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

- First book on the Ashmolean collection in over 30 years- Ashmolean has one of the finest collection of Ruskin works anywhere in the worldJohn Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of the teaching collection of the Drawing School
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