- Title:
- Four Species of Grasses
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 5 5/8 x 7 3/4 inches (14.3 x 19.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, upper left: "F.S. | Vol. 7 -"; upper left to upper right: "109 78 83 30"; lower left to lower right: "3 5 As 2 | reversed 6"; in graphite, lower right: "(1930.227); on back, lower center: "Original drawing by Ruskin for Proserpina"; on back, lower left: "1930.227"
Collector's mark, verso: Yale University Art Gallery (Lugt 2667c)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Anonymous Gift, The Frederick Benjamin Kaye Memorial Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1979.12.710
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- botanical subject | botany | grass | leaves | plants | science | still life | study (visual work)
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:6357
- Export:
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- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 245, cat. 58b, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]