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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1932.8
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Tom Tower, Christ Church, Oxford
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1838
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298606

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite and white gouache on blue-gray wove paper
Dimensions
31.2 x 26.1 cm (12 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1932
Object Number
1932.8
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George P. Landow, The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1971), plate 11
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 8
  • Jeffrey L. Spear, Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and His Tradition in Social Criticism, Columbia University Press (New York, NY, 1984), ill. p. 28
  • R. Dyke Benjamin and Peter Accardo, Remembering John Ruskin, exh. cat., The Grolier Club (New York, NY, 2000), cat. no. 13, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
  • Remembering John Ruskin, The Grolier Club, New York, 02/16/2000 - 04/29/2000

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