1953.206: Study of an Archivolt in Saint Mark's, Venice

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

Permissions

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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

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