1926.33.174: Study of a Magnified Pheasant's Feather

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.174

People

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

Title

Study of a Magnified Pheasant's Feather

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

August 27, 1879

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298605

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, black ink, and white gouache on buff wove paper, darkened

Dimensions

15.5 × 25 cm (6 1/8 × 9 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: below feather, blue and red watercolor: J Ruskin. Brantwood, Aug 27, 1879

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University

Accession Year

1926

Object Number

1926.33.174

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. 103
• 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. 103
• E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 671
• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 37
• Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), p. 99, pl. 74
• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 53
• 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. 84, 95, pl. 44
• 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. 57, repr., p. 32

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 Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
• 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
• Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, Yale Center for British Art, 09/05/2019 - 12/08/2019

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