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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.1
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1876-1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305973

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
35.1 x 28.3 cm (13 13/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: removed from old mount, now encapsulated in curatorial file, black ball-point ink on paper, handwritten: 260 [within pre-printed red border]
  • label: removed from old mount, now encapsulated in curatorial file, black ink on paper, handwritten: [within decorative border] Portrait of John Ruskin / by Charles H. Moore / given by him to / Charles Eliot Norton
  • inscription: remnoved from old mount, now encapsulated in curatorial file, black ink on brown paper, handwritten: Given this anniversary year of / John Ruskin's birth - 1919 - to / The Fogg Art Museum - by / Sara, Elizabeth & Margaret Norton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Eliot Norton, Cambridge, MA; Sara, Elizabeth and Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA, 1908.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the Misses Sara, Elizabeth, and Margaret Norton
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.1
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frank Jewett Mather, Charles Herbert Moore: Landscape Painter, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1957), p. 52 , fig. 34
  • James S. Dearden, "The Ruskin Circle in Italy in 1872", Connisseur (New York, NY, April 1972), vol. 179, pp. 240-45, pp. 240-245
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Harper & Row (New York, NY, 1976), pg. 156
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 1
  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), p. 82
  • Van Akin Burd, ed., Christmas Story: John Ruskin's Venetian Letters of 1876 - 1877, University of Delaware Press (Newark, DE, 1990), p. 159, reproduced, note 61
  • Marjorie B. Cohn, "Turner, Ruskin, Norton, Winthrop", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1993), vol. II, checklist no. 58; fig. 14, p. 46
  • 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. 7, reproduced in b/w as fig. 1
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 88
  • 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), frontispiece
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 238, cat. 195, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
  • Turner-Ruskin-Norton-Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/27/1993 - 02/20/1994
  • A Quiet Devotion: The Life and Works of Henry Roderick Newman, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, 04/26/1996 - 06/07/1996
  • 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

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