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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.506
People
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

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite with lifting and rewetting on cream wove paper
Dimensions
33.5 x 49.3 cm (13 3/16 x 19 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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

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

  • 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
  • "The Loan Collection of Watercolors at the St. Botolph Club--First Article", Boston Evening Transcript (December 9, 1891), p. 8
  • Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Watercolors, exh. cat., St. Botolph Club (Boston, 1891), no. 17(?)
  • 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
  • Sophie Lynford, Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Princeton University Press (Princeton/Oxford, 2022), p. 126, fig. 45

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • Loan Collection of Watercolors, St. Botolph Club, 12/01/1891 - 12/31/1891
  • 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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