Study of the bottom of a Blenheim Orange apple

Study of the bottom of a Blenheim Orange apple

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John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Study of the bottom of a Blenheim Orange apple

Watercolour
10.1 by 13.9 cm., 4 by 5 ½ in.

These four studies are part of a group of watercolour studies of apples drawn by Ruskin in the 1870s. Cook and Wedderburn used a study of a Blenheim orange apple as the frontispiece to the Library edition of
The Elements of Drawing (E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn ed., The Works of John Ruskin, London, 1904, Vol. XV, 'The Elements of Drawing', illus. as frontispiece). They date it to 1873.

Another watercolour study of the same apple was illustrated as the frontispiece to The Elements of Drawing.