1970.74: Twig of Peach Bloom

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1970.74

People

John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)

Title

Twig of Peach Bloom

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1874

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296290

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper

Dimensions

20.9 x 16.1 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist; to William Ward II (1829-1908). Alfred Mansfield Brooks, Swarthmore, PA and Gloucester, MA (1870-1963); to Mrs. Alfred Mansfield Brooks (nee Ruth Steele), at his death, 1963, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1970.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Alfred Mansfield Brooks

Accession Year

1970

Object Number

1970.74

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1283
• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 50
• Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), pp. 94, 287, cat. 128, fig. 30
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 81
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 85, 96, pl. 46
• Linda S. Ferber and Nancy K. Anderson, The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2019), pl. 85, pp. 84, 232
• Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, and Courtney Skipton Long, Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2019), cat. no. 60, repr., p. 32
• Charles Darwent, "'Just what you like': Making Modern Art in Britain" [review of Michael Bird, "This is Tomorrow"], The Times Literary Supplement (October 21, 2022), no. 6238, p. 17, repr. p. 17

Exhibition History

• Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
• The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007
• The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/14/2019 - 07/21/2019

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