1919.259: Part of a Sketch of the Northwest Porch of St. Mark's

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.259

People

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

Title

Part of a Sketch of the Northwest Porch of St. Mark's

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1879

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298668

Physical Descriptions

Medium

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

Dimensions

51.2 x 38.1 cm (20 3/16 x 15 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, blue watercolor: J. Ruskin, Part of sketch of / northwest Porch of St. MARK'S / made in 1877/ Copied at / Brantwood 1879

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Samuel Sachs, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.259

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. 69
• 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. 69
• "The Loan Collection of Watercolors at the St. Botolph Club--First Article", Boston Evening Transcript (December 9, 1891), p. 8
• Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Watercolors, exh. cat., St. Botolph Club (Boston, 1891), no. 18
• E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1938, repr. 10, pl. D
• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 4
• Adelyn Breeskin, Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1939), cat. no. 49
• Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 3, pl. 61
• Robert Hewison, Ruskin and Venice, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson and Speed Art Museum (London, 1978), no. 76, repr.
• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 60
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., William H. Gerdts, Erica E. Hirshler, Fred Licht, and William L. Vance, The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Boston, MA and New York, NY, 1992), p. 121, fig. 7
• Elizabeth Bradford Smith, Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting 1800-1940, exh. cat., Palmer Museum of Art (University Park, PA, 1996), cat. no. 12, repr.
• 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), p. 81, 95, pl. 39
• Stephen Wildman, "'Scrawls and rags'? John Ruskin's Venetian Drawings of 1876-77", Master Drawings (Autumn 2009), vol. 47 no. 3, p. 343
• Emma Sdegno, In Venice with Ruskin, Marsilio Editore (Venice, 2023), p. 83, 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
• Loan Collection of Watercolors, St. Botolph Club, 12/01/1891 - 12/31/1891
• Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
• Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
• 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
• Medieval Art in America: Patterns of Collecting, 1800-1940, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, 01/09/1996 - 03/03/1996; Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 04/01/1996 - 05/26/1996
• 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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