IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77246 accession number: M.2-1861 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Mahogany with brass mounts, and ivory inlaid or applied plaques. Rectangular, standing on a low plinth. The top is hinged 22 cm from the back edge, and has a flange at the front which is inscribed in gold lettering: 'WATER-COLOURS by J.M.W. TURNER, R.A./Given by JOHN RUSKIN, 1861', below which is a key hole. When pushed up, the top is supported by a hinged brass prop and ratchet in the top of the right side of the carcase. The carcase contains five removable vertical cases with handles of leather-covered metal on the top. These are numbered on the front with inlaid circular ivory disks, numbered respectively 1 to 5 in black. Each has a metal alloy latch-type fastening lower down on the front. Each case contains five removable glazed oak frames for drawings, grooved at the top and bottom to fit into runners in the boxes. Some retain a leather tab by which they were drawn out of the box. They are numbered above the frames on the inside of the top of the case, on applied rectangular ivory plaques, originally numbered 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, 16-20, and 21-25. The first case has the number '1' on an rectangular ivory label at bottom right. The gilding on the brass hinges is worn. The top of the cabinet is very badly scratched, particularly on the area behind the hinge. The following numbers are missing from above the frames: 1, 2, 10, 14, 15, 17-19, 21-25. Frame 25 is missing object type: Mahogany cabinet with brass mounts and ivory plaques, with five removable vertical cases, each case containing five removable glazed oak frames for drawings. The top has a flange at the front inscribed in gold lettering 'WATER-COLOURS by J.M.W.TURNER, R.A./Given by JOHN RUSKIN, 1861.' title: drawing cabinet NOTES ----- type: history note value: Commissioned by the donor. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by John Ruskin, RA. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77246 PEOPLE ------------------- Ruskin, John Turner, J. M. W CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1861 - 1861 creation date earliest: 1861 creation date latest: 1861 culture: Victorian culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Snell, William and Edward DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 52.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 76.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 78.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Ruskin's Turners CITATIONS -------- Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/M_2_1861_1_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 877 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_M_2_1861_1_dc2.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/M_2_1861_1_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 877 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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