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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.116
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Venetian Renaissance Capital
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1876-1877
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298766

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache on purple card, faded to cream
Dimensions
28 x 22.2 cm (11 x 8 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left: J Ruskin (Venetian Renaissance) 1879 look from the other end of the room

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
1926.33.116
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 3, pl. 62
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 56
  • 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. 83, 95, pl. 43
  • Emma Sdegno, In Venice with Ruskin, Marsilio Editore (Venice, 2023), p. 4, repr.

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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