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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.447
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1876-1880
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228362

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54.6 x 38.1 cm (21 1/2 x 15 in.)
framed: 72.4 x 55.9 x 4.5 cm (28 1/2 x 22 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Charles Eliot Norton, Cambridge, MA; bequest to his daughters Elizabeth and Sara Norton, 1908; Goodspeed Books, Boston; purchased by Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, 1919.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.447
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 20, 34, fig. 5
  • 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. 239-40, cat. 196, ill. p. 239
  • Peter Accardo, ed., Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Ideal, exh. cat., Houghton Library (Cambridge, MA, 2019), pp. 93-94, repr. frontispiece,
  • Paul Tucker, ed., Guide to the Principal Pictures in the Academy of Fine Arts at Venice: A Critical Edition, with Other Texts on Carpaccio and Venetian Painting, Edizioni Ca'Foscari and Venice University Press (Venice, 2023), p. 12, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Victorian Visionary: John Ruskin and the Realization of the Ideal, Houghton Library, Cambridge, 01/14/2019 - 04/13/2019

Verification Level

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