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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1953.206
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Study of an Archivolt in Saint Mark's, Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1852
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297456

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, graphite, black ink, and gold paint on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39.1 x 55.9 cm (15 3/8 x 22 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: ll:"This was intended for a new plate for the Architecture of Venice - partly from Daguerreotype - and partly from materials - but not from nature - by J.R. for his Sorella"
    recto: inscribed in graphite in upper left "37639"

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Edward Waldo Forbes, Cambridge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1953

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Edward W. Forbes
Accession Year
1953
Object Number
1953.206
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Ruskin and Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Notes on Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, placed on exhibition by Professor Norton..., exh. cat., John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, 1879), no. 61
  • John Ruskin and Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Notes on Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, placed on exhibition by Professor Norton..., exh. cat., John Wilson and Son (Boston, 1880), no. 61
  • Robert Hewison, Ruskin and Venice, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson and Speed Art Museum (London, 1978), no. 44, repr.
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 23
  • Jeffrey L. Spear, Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism, Columbia University Press (New York, NY, 1984), ill. p. 161
  • R. Dyke Benjamin and Peter Accardo, Remembering John Ruskin, exh. cat., The Grolier Club (New York, NY, 2000), cat. no. 42, repr.
  • Emma Sdegno, In Venice with Ruskin, Marsilio Editore (Venice, 2023), p. 77, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, Noyes & Blakeslee, Boston, 10/01/1879 - 10/31/1879
  • Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 02/01/1880 - 02/28/1880
  • Ruskin and Venice, Speed Art Museum, 10/16/1978 - 11/19/1978
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
  • Remembering John Ruskin, The Grolier Club, New York, 02/16/2000 - 04/29/2000
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2024 - 01/05/2025

Verification Level

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