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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1954.135
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Looking down from Florence towards Lucca
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1882
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293768

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on blue wove paper, faded
Dimensions
28.7 x 49.4 cm (11 5/16 x 19 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.135
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 63
  • Lucia Bonelli Conenna and Attilio Brilli, Il paesaggio toscano: L'opera dell'uomo e la nascita di un mito, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (Siena, 2004), p. 516, fig. 1 (color)

Exhibition History

  • [John Ruskin exhibition], Smith College Museum of Art, 12/01/1949 - 12/21/1949; Yale University Art Gallery, 01/01/1950 - 01/31/1950
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979

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