Lion Head, after Ruskin
June 1876
Artists
Description
This is copied after a drawing by John Ruskin in his Rudimentary Series. See "Catalogue of the Rudimentary Series: in the arrangement of 1873 with Ruskin's comments of 1878," Lion and Unicorn Press, London, 1984. It appears as no. R47, reproduced in b/w p. 68, text p. 69: "Sketch of head of living Lion. A really good sketch of my own which may serve to show that I could have done something if I had not had books to write. It is to be copied by all advanced students as an exercise in fast pencil drawing."
Dimensions
21.6 x 21.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.
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