Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I
- PART II TURNER'S WORKS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
- 1 LETTERS TO THE “TIMES” ON THE TURNER BEQUEST (1856, 1857)
- 2 “NOTES ON THE TURNER GALLERY AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 1856”
- 3 “CATALOGUE OF THE TURNER SKETCHES IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY,” PART I.(1857)
- 4 “CATALOGUE OF THE SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., EXHIBITED IN MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 1857–1858”
- 5 “MR. RUSKIN'S REPORT ON THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY” (1858)
- 6 LETTERS TO THE PRESS ON THE EXHIBITION OF THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN POSSESSION OF THE NATION (1858, 1859, 1876)
- 7 “CATALOGUE OF THE DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., AT PRESENT EXHIBITED IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, REVISED AND CAST INTO PROGRESSIVE GROUPS” (1881)
- PART III
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
5 - “MR. RUSKIN'S REPORT ON THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY” (1858)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO THIS VOLUME
- PART I
- PART II TURNER'S WORKS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
- 1 LETTERS TO THE “TIMES” ON THE TURNER BEQUEST (1856, 1857)
- 2 “NOTES ON THE TURNER GALLERY AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 1856”
- 3 “CATALOGUE OF THE TURNER SKETCHES IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY,” PART I.(1857)
- 4 “CATALOGUE OF THE SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., EXHIBITED IN MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, 1857–1858”
- 5 “MR. RUSKIN'S REPORT ON THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY” (1858)
- 6 LETTERS TO THE PRESS ON THE EXHIBITION OF THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN POSSESSION OF THE NATION (1858, 1859, 1876)
- 7 “CATALOGUE OF THE DRAWINGS AND SKETCHES BY J. M. W. TURNER, R.A., AT PRESENT EXHIBITED IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY, REVISED AND CAST INTO PROGRESSIVE GROUPS” (1881)
- PART III
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
Summary
[Bibliographical Note.—This document, not hitherto republished, is reprinted from Appendix No. 7, pp. 67–69 of the Report of the Director of the National Gallery to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, dated 5th April 1858.]
MR. RUSKIN'S REPORT ON THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The Drawings by Turner in the possession of the Nation may most conveniently be given account of under three heads:—
(1) Drawings arranged for immediate exhibition, or which it is desirable so to arrange.
(2) Drawings which can only be exhibited in the event of the enlargement of the National Gallery.
(3) Drawings which it is not advisable to exhibit with the body of the collection, but of which a portion might be distributed with advantage among Provincial Schools of Art.
CLASS I
The number of drawings of this class placed on the walls of Marlborough House has been already stated in Mr. Wornum's Catalogue of the Pictures of the British School. I confine myself here to an account of those in the National Gallery, which, with few exceptions, have not yet been exhibited. Four hundred of these have been selected for general exhibition, including all the best and most highly finished drawings, 200 of which are already secured in light frames of holly, covering deal, and enclosed in portable mahogany cases, in a mode which I believe will render them conveniently accessible to the public.
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- The Works of John Ruskin , pp. 317 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1904