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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.49
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Dawn at Neuchâtel
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1866
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298820

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache on cream wove paper, darkened to brown
Dimensions
17.5 x 25 cm (6 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

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
1919.49
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 37
  • 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. 37
  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1192, repr. vol. 18, pl. 1
  • Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 12
  • Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 2, pl. 49
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 45
  • Jeffrey L. Spear, Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism, Columbia University Press (New York, NY, 1984), ill. p. 15
  • Mary Jo Davis, "Technical Examination of Twelve Discolored Drawings and Watercolors by John Ruskin" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-17 passim
  • Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from the David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press (London, 2000), fig. 52, p. 134
  • Craigen Bowen and Barbara J. Mangum, "The User's Point of View: Micro-Fading Test Results and the Shaping of Exhibition Policy", The Broad Spectrum: Studies in the Materials, Techniques, and Conservation..., ed. Harriet K. Stratis, Archetype Publications (London, England, 2002), pp. 245-255, fig. 5.6 (color), p. 246
  • Christopher Newall, John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 2014), p. 305

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
  • Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, London, 03/09/2000 - 05/28/2000

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