1907.16: Solway Moss, Cumberland

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1907.16

People

Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)

Title

Solway Moss, Cumberland

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1801

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298761

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Gray-blue watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

26.1 x 41.2 cm (10 1/4 x 16 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Gift of James Loeb, Class of 1888

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James Loeb, Class of 1888

Accession Year

1907

Object Number

1907.16

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 64
• Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 17
• Amy Brauer and Susanne Ebbinghaus, "Charles Eliot Norton and his Disciples: Building Harvard's Ancient Art Collection", James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur: Proceedings of the Second James Loeb Biennial Conference, ed. Jeffrey Henderson and Professor Richard Thomas, Department of the Classics and Harvard University (Cambridge, MA / London, 2022), p. 132 note 36

Exhibition History

• Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910

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