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Nr. 188 (November 1908)
DOI Artikel:Sinclair, W.: The Ruskin museum at Sheffield
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The Ruskin Museum, Sheffield
has been opened, and is
devoted chiefly to the
engraved works of J. M. W.
Turner. It contains a
representative selection
from each of Turner’s
works, and as they are
periodically changed,
afford an exhibition of sus-
tained interest and con-
tinuous instruction and
entertainment.
Until one has visited
the museum and seen for
a time the wonderful
wealth of precious gems
in the cases in the mineral
room, it would be quite
futile to attempt a descrip-
tion of what represents a
life’s work. Here are
brilliant examples of flint,
chalcedony, agates, jas-
per, opal, hyalite, quartz,
copper, iron, tin, lead,
zinc, antimony, crystals of
blue topaz, sapphires,
rubies, beryls and eme-
ralds, garnets, lapis-lazuli
or azure stone, gold in its
native state in the rocks,
and silver in the fantastic
shapes assumed in nature,
in the form of branches,
■“the CHAPEL OF ST. MARY OF THE THORN, PISA”
( In the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield)
description accompanies each drawing, in which its
chief characteristic is pointed out. The first
room, which is on the ground floor, is known
as the Carpaccio Room, for it contains a fine
series of studies and photographs of the works
■of Victor Carpaccio alone, including the beautiful
water-colour copy, by Signor Angelo Alessandri, of
that most lovely picture, The Presentation of
Christ in the Temple, the original of which is in the
Academy at Venice. There are, besides, some
excellent studies, by Mr. C. Fairfax Murray, of
details of the high priest’s robe in this picture, quite
an interesting study in itself ; the subjects in which
include The Acts of Creation and the Fall of the
Pebel Angels, also the Three Angel Musicians, in
the lower portion of the picture. More recently
a new room for exhibits, called the Print Room,
by John ruskin rootlets, filaments, ribbons
and entangled strings,
twined about the calcitic
rocks amongst which it is found. There are
nuggets of platinum of considerable size, and
last, but not least in interest, there are many very
beautiful diamonds in native state. When pur-
chasing specimens of minerals, the Professor
always stipulated that they should be sent in their
native state if possible, a matter of great im-
portance to the student from an educational point
of view, which was always to him the chief feature
of his collections.
The picture gallery is a small one, though of
greater length than the mineral room, which it
adjoins, but has the advantage of being lighted by
windows instead of from the roof. The work
represented here is of a very valuable character,
the most remarkable as well as the most valu-
able picture in the collection being Verrocchio’s
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has been opened, and is
devoted chiefly to the
engraved works of J. M. W.
Turner. It contains a
representative selection
from each of Turner’s
works, and as they are
periodically changed,
afford an exhibition of sus-
tained interest and con-
tinuous instruction and
entertainment.
Until one has visited
the museum and seen for
a time the wonderful
wealth of precious gems
in the cases in the mineral
room, it would be quite
futile to attempt a descrip-
tion of what represents a
life’s work. Here are
brilliant examples of flint,
chalcedony, agates, jas-
per, opal, hyalite, quartz,
copper, iron, tin, lead,
zinc, antimony, crystals of
blue topaz, sapphires,
rubies, beryls and eme-
ralds, garnets, lapis-lazuli
or azure stone, gold in its
native state in the rocks,
and silver in the fantastic
shapes assumed in nature,
in the form of branches,
■“the CHAPEL OF ST. MARY OF THE THORN, PISA”
( In the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield)
description accompanies each drawing, in which its
chief characteristic is pointed out. The first
room, which is on the ground floor, is known
as the Carpaccio Room, for it contains a fine
series of studies and photographs of the works
■of Victor Carpaccio alone, including the beautiful
water-colour copy, by Signor Angelo Alessandri, of
that most lovely picture, The Presentation of
Christ in the Temple, the original of which is in the
Academy at Venice. There are, besides, some
excellent studies, by Mr. C. Fairfax Murray, of
details of the high priest’s robe in this picture, quite
an interesting study in itself ; the subjects in which
include The Acts of Creation and the Fall of the
Pebel Angels, also the Three Angel Musicians, in
the lower portion of the picture. More recently
a new room for exhibits, called the Print Room,
by John ruskin rootlets, filaments, ribbons
and entangled strings,
twined about the calcitic
rocks amongst which it is found. There are
nuggets of platinum of considerable size, and
last, but not least in interest, there are many very
beautiful diamonds in native state. When pur-
chasing specimens of minerals, the Professor
always stipulated that they should be sent in their
native state if possible, a matter of great im-
portance to the student from an educational point
of view, which was always to him the chief feature
of his collections.
The picture gallery is a small one, though of
greater length than the mineral room, which it
adjoins, but has the advantage of being lighted by
windows instead of from the roof. The work
represented here is of a very valuable character,
the most remarkable as well as the most valu-
able picture in the collection being Verrocchio’s
129