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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2023.479
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
First Sketch of Verona Griffin
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1846(?)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/382253

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and watercolor on beige wove paper
Dimensions
31.8 × 23.9 cm (12 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
frame: 42.7 × 32.4 × 1.4 cm (16 13/16 × 12 3/4 × 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower right, brown ink: First sketch of Verona Griffin for M. P. / (1846)? J Ruskin original 23. Dec. 78
  • inscription: on mat, lower left, graphite: For F.H.B / with love from / C.E.N.
  • inscription: back of frame, black ink: Harold B. Warren / with regards of / Francis H. Bacon / November 1926
  • inscription: back of frame, black ink: Charles Eliot Norton

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Ruskin, gift; to Charles Eliot Norton, gift; to Francis H. Bacon, gift or trade; to Harold Broadfield Warren, 1926, by descent; to his grandson Langford Warren, sold; to Royal W. and Mary Joan W. Leith, 1992, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Royal W. Leith and Mary Joan Winn Leith in honor of their son Thomas Bell Leith, Class of 2016
Accession Year
2023
Object Number
2023.479
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Smith, Elder and Co. (London, 1856), vol. III, p. 106, note 1
  • Jeremy Melius, "'Fossil-creatures' and the 'mockeries of life': Ruskin at Verona", Sculpture Journal (2023), vol. 32, issue 2, pp. 223-249, p. 249 note 47

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