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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1907.8
People
Joseph Mallord William Turner, British (London, England 1775 - 1851 Chelsea, England)
Title
Durham Cathedral seen through a grove of trees
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1801
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299112

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
actual: 41.5 x 26.5 cm (16 5/16 x 10 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Ruskin; to Charles Eliot Norton, sold; to James Loeb, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1907

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James Loeb, Class of 1888
Accession Year
1907
Object Number
1907.8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 73
  • 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

Verification Level

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