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RUSKIN AND CAMBRIDGE Presentation address, on vellum, from the University of Cambridge, to John Ruskin, acknowledging the gift of twenty-five pictures, Senate House, Cambridge, 13 June 1861
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RUSKIN AND CAMBRIDGE
Presentation address, on vellum, from the University of Cambridge, to John Ruskin, headed: "Viro eximio, Johanni Ruskin Procancellarius Senatusque Cantabrigiensis S.D.", acknowledging the gift of twenty-five pictures ("...Nempe Museum nostrum, pictoris inter æquales principis nullo antehac opera ornatum, nunc largitionem tuam viginti quinque potitur tabulis, optima plerisque notæ, his juvenile, his ultimam manum, illis denique perfectam maturæ ætatis artem exhibentibus...), on one sheet of vellum, arched top, minor dust-staining, 470 x 475mm., Senate House, Cambridge, 13 June 1861
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RUSKIN GIVES THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM TWENTY-FIVE TURNER WATERCOLOURS: in March 1861 he had presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, forty-eight Turner watercolours, following this up with his gift to Cambridge in May (complete with the cabinet in which the drawings were housed). His disciple, Sydney Cockerell, was to build on this gift when he became director of the museum, by acquiring further Turner watercolours as well as drawings by Ruskin himself.