Illustrations to ‘John Ruskin and the National Gallery: evolving ideas about curating the nation’s paintings during the second half of the nineteenth century’
Susanna Avery-Quash
Figure 1 Sir Hubert von Herkomer, John Ruskin, 1879. Watercolour, 75.5 x 50.3 cm. London: National Portrait Gallery. Creative commons
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Figure 2 Sir Francis Grant, Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, 1853. Pen, ink and wash on paper, 29.3 x 20.3 cm. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 3 W. Green, Ralph Nicholson Wornum. Black and white reproduction, the original photograph taken about 1870s. London: National Gallery Library & Archive. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 4 Richard Doyle, Cartoon of ‘In the National Gallery’ (1840). Photo © The National Gallery, London. The crowd inspects Murillo’s The Infant Saint John with the Lamb, purchased in 1840; Rubens’s The Brazen Serpent, purchased in 1837, is visible on another wall, equally densely packed with pictures.
Figure 5 William Wilkins, Floor plan of the National Gallery, July 1836. From 1838– 1868, the National Gallery occupied the west wing and the Royal Academy occupied the east wing. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 6 Peter Paul Rubens, Minerva protects Pax from Mars, 1629–30. Oil on canvas, 203.5 x 298 cm. Presented by the Duke of Sutherland, 1828. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
Figure 7 Gaspard Dughet, Landscape with a Storm, about 1660. Oil on canvas, 137.5 x 185.2 cm. Bought, 1824. The painting still has its old varnish on it. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 8 R.N. Wornum’s Diary, page including the entry for 17 October 1859, where he condemns the use of ‘patent parchment’ to cover the backs of Gallery pictures. National Gallery Library & Archive. © The National Gallery, London
Figure 9 Frederick Mackenzie, The National Gallery when at Mr J.J. Angerstein's House, Pall Mall, about 1830. Watercolour, 46.7 x 62.2 cm. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. Creative commons
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Figure 10 Giovanni Bellini, Doge Leonardo Loredan, about 1501-2. Oil on poplar, 61.4 x 44.5 cm. Bought 1844. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
Figure 11 Guido Reni, Susannah and the Elders, 1620–5. Oil on canvas, 116.6 x 150.5 cm. Bought 1844. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 12 ‘New Rooms at the National Gallery’, Illustrated London News, 1861. To provide the Gallery with more space, in 1861 James Pennethorne designed a new gallery across Wilkin’s entrance; it displayed Italian Renaissance paintings. © The National Gallery, London
Figure 13 Jacopo Tintoretto, The Crucifixion, 1568. Oil on canvas, 341 cm x 371 cm. San Cassiano, Venice. Wikimedia WGA22477.jpg
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Figure 14 Jacopo Tintoretto, Saint George and the Dragon, about 1555. Oil on canvas, 158.3 x 100.5 cm. Holwell Carr Bequest, 1831. National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
Figure 15 William and Edward Snell, drawing cabinet designed and donated by John Ruskin, 1861. Mahogany with brass mounts and ivory plaques, 76.5 x 78.2 x 52.7 cm. © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Figure 16 John Ruskin, Catalogue of the Sketches and Drawings by J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Exhibited in Marlborough House in the Year 1857–8. National Gallery Library & Archive. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 17 Letter from John Ruskin to Ralph Wornum, notifying him that he intended ‘leaving the entire property of which I may be possessed at my death, to the Trustees of the National gallery’, 3 May 1862. National Gallery Library & Archive. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 18 Vincenzo Catena, Portrait of the Doge, Andrea Gritti, probably 1523–31. Oil on canvas, 97.2 x 79.4 cm. Presented by Mrs Otto Gutekunst, 1947; formerly owned by John Ruskin, who attributed it to Titian. London: National Gallery. © The National Gallery, London
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Figure 19 Louise Blandy, Study of seven angels (detail), after Christ Glorified in Court of Heaven, probably by Fra Angelico, 1883–4, in the National Gallery. Watercolour, bodycolour and gold on paper, 16.9 x 25.7 cm. Collection of the Guild of St George, Museums Sheffield
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Figure 20 Charles Fairfax Murray, after Sandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity. Watercolour on cream wove paper, 35.6 x 25.5 cm. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of Edward W. Forbes. © President and Fellows of Harvard College