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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.65
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
The Matterhorn
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1849
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298758

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
26.6 x 37.2 cm (10 1/2 x 14 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, William M. Prichard Fund
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.65
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1120, repr. 5, pl. D
  • Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 19
  • Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 2, pl. 34
  • George P. Landow, The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1971), plate 10
  • Klaus Gallwitz, Gerhard Köhler, and Günter Metken, ed., Präraffaeliten, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, 1973), no. 6, repr.
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 32
  • "Of Ruskinian Topography: Visible and Legible Salience in 'Modern Painters'", website, accessed September 22, 2020, fig. 2

Exhibition History

  • Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
  • Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939
  • [John Ruskin exhibition], Smith College Museum of Art, 12/01/1949 - 12/21/1949; Yale University Art Gallery, 01/01/1950 - 01/31/1950
  • Präraffaelliten, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 11/23/1973 - 02/24/1974
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979

Verification Level

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