Watercolor, pen and brown ink, white gouache, gum, and graphite; verso: graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 6 7/8 inches (19.1 × 17.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "1358.30"; lower right: "by John Ruskin | given by him to me | Joan Ruskin Severn."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2014.5.78
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
leaves | botanical subject | oak | study (visual work) | leaf
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Unto This Last (Watts Gallery) (Watts Gallery Trust, 2020-03-10 - 2020-11-01)Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 167, cat. 25, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
“If you can paint one leaf, you can paint the world.” John Ruskin, Modern Painters, vol. 4, 1856. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)