1910.51: Convent and Alpine Pass, Visp, Switzerland
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1910.51
- People
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John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
- Title
- Convent and Alpine Pass, Visp, Switzerland
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1844
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299103
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor, white gouache, graphite, and black chalk on gray-beige wove paper, darkened
- Dimensions
- 32.4 x 46.5 cm (12 3/4 x 18 5/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Friends and Former Pupils of Professor C. H. Moore in recognition of his service
- Accession Year
- 1910
- Object Number
- 1910.51
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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. 895
- Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 1, pl. 27 (as "Visp")
- Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 10
- Jeffrey L. Spear, Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism, Columbia University Press (New York, NY, 1984), ill. p. 17
- 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. 52
- Sally Anne Duncan and Andrew McClellan, The Art of Curating: Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2018), pp. 13-14, repr. as fig. 7
Exhibition History
- Interpretations of Architecture in Drawings and Prints from the Renaissance through Le Corbusier, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 12/15/1939 - 01/26/1940
- Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
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