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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1910.51
People
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
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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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