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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.139
People
Henry Roderick Newman, American (Easton NY 1843 - 1917 Florence Italy)
Title
Church of San Giovanni, Lucca
Other Titles
Former Title: Facade of the Church of San Giovanni
Former Title: Study of a Tuscan Cathedral
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1885
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305989

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on heavy off-white wove paper
Dimensions
35 x 28.9 cm (13 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: blue watercolor, l.l.: H R Newman
  • inscription: Signed in blue watercolor, lower left: H.R. Newman

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Purchased from the artist by Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, c. 1887; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.139
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), p. 209, cat. 62, ill.
  • Christopher Finch, Nineteenth-Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1991), reproduced in b/w p. 226
  • Royal W. Leith, Ruskin and his American Followers in Tuscany: A Historical Study, Brentham Press (St. Albans,UK, 1994), p. 11, note 34, plate 11
  • Royal W. Leith, "The Expatriate Years of Henry Roderick Newman", The Magazine Antiques, Straight Enterprises (New York, NY, April 1996), pp. 574-83, pp. 574-83
  • Royal W. Leith, A Quiet Devotion: The Life and Work of Henry Roderick Newman, exh. cat., Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1996), cat. no. 22, color plate 22
  • 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. 78, 95, pl. 35
  • 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. 261, cat. 274, ill. p. 261

Exhibition History

  • The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 03/29/1985 - 06/10/1985; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/03/1985 - 09/08/1985
  • 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

Verification Level

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