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Two sets of text frame an illustration of globe flowers and a stalk of wheat.

Page from a book with the title “S. Zita” at the top. Below the title are two large, tall sets of text, the left in English and the right in Italian. Both portions of text are enclosed by a thin rectangular border. Each is a poem arranged in five stanzas, with the first letter of each line written in a larger, decorative style. In the middle of the page between the poems is an illustration of two plants: A pair of globe flowers on the right, with rose-like petals and large, serrated leaves; and a stalk of wheat on the left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1981.114
People
Francesca Alexander, American (Boston MA 1837 - 1917 Florence Italy)
Title
Text with Globe Flowers for the "Ballad of Santa Zita" from "Tuscan Songs"
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1868-1882
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/309286

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink over graphite erasures on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
38.9 × 28.1 cm (15 5/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: upper edge, brown ink: S. Zita; LXXX

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Ruskin. [Sven Bruntjen Fine Arts, Woodside, CA], sold; to Joseph and Deborah Goldyne, 1981, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1981

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joseph and Deborah Goldyne in honor of Marjorie B. Cohn and Konrad Oberhuber
Accession Year
1981
Object Number
1981.114
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Francesca Alexander, Tuscan Songs Collected, Translated and Illustrated by Francesca Alexander, Houghton Mifflin Company (Cambridge, MA, 1897), plate LXXXI
  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 32, p. 46, leaves 78 - 92
  • Van Wyck Brooks, The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy, 1760 - 1915, Dutton (New York, NY, 1958), pp. 176 - 188
  • Francesca Alexander (1837 - 1917): Drawings for "Roadside Songs of Tuscany", auct. cat., Sven H. A. Bruntjen Fine Arts (Woodside, CA, Winter 1981), p. 17, no. 42, pl. 42
  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), pp. 228 - 231
  • 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. 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), p. 55, 92, pl. 1

Exhibition History

  • 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
  • 32Q: 2130 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/31/2019 - 11/08/2021

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