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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1945.36
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Coral Oysters
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1868
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297454

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
26 x 32.2 cm (10 1/4 x 12 11/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Fritz B. Talbot
Accession Year
1945
Object Number
1945.36
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1269
  • Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), p. 99, pl. 72
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 46
  • Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from the David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press (London, 2000), fig. 7, p. 23
  • 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. 84, 96, pl. 45

Exhibition History

  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
  • 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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