1945.36: Coral Oysters

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

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

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

Verification Level