- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1919.506
- People
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John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
- Title
- Fragment of the Alps
- Other Titles
- Former Title: Boulder at Chamonix
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1854-1856
- Culture
- British
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/303730
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Watercolor and gouache over graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 33.5 x 49.3 cm (13 3/16 x 19 7/16 in.)
- Provenance
- The artist, sold; to Charles Eliot Norton c. 1858, by descent; to Sara, Margaret, and Elizabeth Norton (daughters of Charles Eliot Norton), sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919 [1].
[1] Samuel Sachs provided the funds to purchase the drawing, however, it was never in his collection. - Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.506
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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John Ruskin - Biography and Legacy, website, The Art Story Foundation, accessed January 7, 2022
Catalogue of the American Exhibition of British Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, exh. cat., Collins (Philadelphia, 1858), no. 88
Catalogue of the American Exhibition of British Art, at the Athenaeum Gallery, Boston, exh. cat., J. H. Eastburn (Boston, 1858), no. 67
William James Stillman, "Naturalism and Genius", New Path (October 1863), vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 64-70, p. 66
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. 86
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. 86
E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 422, vol. 36, pl. 17
Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 3
Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, 1964), cat. 16
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, 1967)
Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), p. 81, 84, pl. 60
Klaus Gallwitz, Gerhard Köhler, and Günter Metken, ed., Präraffaeliten, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, 1973), no. 7, repr.
Rowland Elzea and Betty Elzea, The Pre-Raphaelite Era 1848-1914, exh. cat., Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE, 1976), no. 1-8, ill.
Marjorie B. Cohn, Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1977), pp. 9, 52, 53, cat. no. 53 pp. 107-108, frontispiece
Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 33
Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 97, n.p., pl. 97, repr.
Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), cat. 125, ill p. 108, pl. 5, ill. p. 284
Marjorie Shelley, "'Splendid Mountain,' a Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent", Metropolitan Museum Journal (New York, NY, 1993), vol. 28, pp. 185-205, p. 205, note 33
Marjorie B. Cohn, "Turner, Ruskin, Norton, Winthrop", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1993), vol. II, p. 17
Royal W. Leith, A Quiet Devotion: The Life and Work of Henry Roderick Newman, exh. cat., Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), p. 54, fig. 55
James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), p. 230, ill. p. 231
Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
Franklin Kelly, American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmderding Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2004), no. 33, fig. 1
Teresa A. Carbone, American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876, Brooklyn Museum (New York, 2006), p. 940, fig. 112
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, ill. p. 82
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. 12-13, 17, 32, 87, 96, pl. 48
Alec Mishory, Still Life: From Represented Objects to Real Objects, Open University of Israel (Israel, 2008), p. 182, fig 153
Heather Birchall, Pre-Raphaelites, ed. Norbert Wolf, Taschen GmbH (Cologne, Germany, 2010), p. 48, ill. p. 49
Hina Hirayama, "With Éclat" The Boston Athenæum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA, 2013), p. 67, ill.
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press (U.S.) and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 524, fn 4.
Uta Hassler, ed., Felsengärten, Gartengrotten, Kunstberge: Motive der Natur in Architektur und Garten, Hirmer (Munich, 2014), p. 67, fig. 5
Christopher Newall, John Ruskin: Artist and Observer, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada, 2014), p. 231, fig. 6.1
Ken Jacobson and Jenny Jacobson, Carrying Off the Palaces: John Ruskin's Lost Daguerreotypes, Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London, 2015), pp. 93, 302, 322, fig. 131
Christopher Lloyd, Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors, J. Paul Getty Museum and Thames & Hudson (Los Angeles, 2015), p.216; repr. as fig.147 on p.217
Kathleen A. Foster, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, 2017), pp. 45, 52, fig. 36
Patricia Phagan, Past Time: Geology in European and American Art, exh. cat., Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, 2018), p. 56
Linda S. Ferber and Nancy K. Anderson, The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2019), pl. 84, pp. 3, 71, 74, 81, 95, 119, 232, detail repr. p. 18
Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, and Courtney Skipton Long, Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2019), p. 79, fig. 46, detail repr. p. 68
- Exhibition History
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American Exhibition of British Art, National Academy of Design, New York, 10/20/1857 - 12/15/1857
American Exhibition of British Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 02/03/1858 - 03/20/1858
American Exhibition of British Art, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, 04/05/1858 - 06/19/1858
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
[John Ruskin exhibition], Smith College Museum of Art, 12/01/1949 - 12/21/1949; Yale University Art Gallery, 01/01/1950 - 01/31/1950
Unidentified Exhibition, Wesleyan University, 1959, Davison Art Center, Middletown, 07/01/1959 - 08/31/1959
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
Präraffaelliten, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 11/23/1973 - 02/24/1974
The Pre-Raphaelite Era 1848 - 1914, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, 04/12/1976 - 06/06/1976
Wash and Gouache: A Study of the Development of the Materials of Watercolor, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/12/1977 - 06/22/1977
Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
The Age of Romanticism, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 03/15/1986 - 05/18/1986
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
The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 04/14/2019 - 07/21/2019
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