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Description: | In 1861, the Museum's collection of watercolours and drawings was transformed by the gift of twenty-five watercolours by J.M.W.Turner from the writer and critic John Ruskin, TurnerÃ's most fervent champion and critic. Earlier that year, Ruskin had given a group of forty-eight watercolours and drawings to the University of Oxford, where he had studied from 1837-41. In May, Ruskin wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge offering a Ãless extensiveÃ' series, of twenty-five drawings and sketches, Ãwhich I have chosen, as well as I could, out of my remaining collection, to illustrate TurnerÃ's modes of work at various periods of his life. They are small, and the market value will not at present be more than 1400 pounds; but I think they may be useful for reference and occasional example to the younger students who may take an interest in the study of English art and in the practice of drawingÃ'. | Subjects: | Drawings | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7074 | Go to resource |
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