1957.187: Architectural Study

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1957.187

People

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

Title

Architectural Study

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1845-1850

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296967

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, black ink, white gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

37.9 x 19.9 cm (14 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Estate of William and Frances White Emerson

Accession Year

1957

Object Number

1957.187

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 22
• Jeffrey L. Spear, Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism, Columbia University Press (New York, NY, 1984), ill. p. 119
• 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. 83, 95, pl. 42

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

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