1919.504: Study of Portal and Carved Pinnacles, Cathedral of St. Lô, Normandy

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.504

People

John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)

Title

Study of Portal and Carved Pinnacles, Cathedral of St. Lô, Normandy

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1848

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298628

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite, brown ink, and brown wash on cream wove paper

Dimensions

48.1 x 36.2 cm (18 15/16 x 14 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles Eliot Norton, to; his daughters Sara, Margaret, and Elizabeth, sold; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919 [1]

[1] purchased with funds provided by Samuel Sachs

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.504

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary

A portion of this drawing is engraved, in reverse, in "The Seven Lamps of Architecture", pl. II.

Publication History

• John Ruskin and Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Notes on Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, placed on exhibition by Professor Norton..., exh. cat., John Wilson and Son (Cambridge, 1879), no. 79
• John Ruskin and Professor Charles Eliot Norton, Notes on Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, placed on exhibition by Professor Norton..., exh. cat., John Wilson and Son (Boston, 1880), no. 79
• John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Charles E. Merrill & Co. and George Allen (New York/London, 1890), p. 95 note 17
• E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1457
• Allen Staley, An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, 1965), no. 123
• J. G. Links, The Ruskins in Normandy: A Tour in 1848 with Murray's Hand-book, John Murray (London, 1968), pp. 53-55, plate 9
• "Romantic Utopian", MD: Medical News Magazine (June 1969), 13, no. 6, repr. pp. 172-173
• Nikolaus Pevsner, Ruskin and Viollet-le-Duc: Englishness and Frenchness in the Appreciation of Gothic Architecture, Thames & Hudson (London, 1969), fig. 11
• George P. Landow, The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1971), plate 12
• Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), pp. 69-70, pl. 52
• Klaus Gallwitz, Gerhard Köhler, and Günter Metken, ed., Präraffaeliten, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden, 1973), no. 4, repr.
• John Unrau, Looking at Architecture with Ruskin, Thames & Hudson (London, 1978), p. 111, fig. 61
• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 15
• Michael Wheeler and Nigel Whiteley, ed., The Lamp of Memory: Ruskin, Tradition and Architecture, Manchester University Press (Manchester, 1992), pp. 149-151, pl. 15
• Susan P. Casteras and Susan Phelps Gordon, John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Phoenix Art Museum (New York/Phoenix, 1993), p. 14, fig. 7
• Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from the David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press (London, 2000), fig. 3, p. 22
• Robert Hewison, Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 2000), no. 74, p. 94, repr.
• 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. 82, 95, pl. 40
• Lucie Goujard, Annette Haudiquet, and Caroline Joubert, Voyages pittoresques: Normandie 1820-2009, exh. cat., Silvana Editoriale (Milan, 2009), p. 80, repr. p. 79 as fig. 10
• Thea Burns, The Luminous Trace: Drawing and Writing in Metalpoint, Archetype Publications (London, 2012), p. 149, fig. 66
• Stephen Kite, "Shaping the Darks: Ruskin's 'Energetic Shadow'", Gothic Revival Worldwide: A.W.N. Pugin's Global Influence, ed. Timothy Brittain-Catlin, Leuven University Press (Leuven, 2016), pp. 228-239, pp. 238-239, fig. 16.10
• Stephen Kite, Shadow-Makers: A Cultural History of Shadows in Architecture, Bloomsbury (London, 2017), pp. 165, 167, 168, fig. 6.10
• Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, and Courtney Skipton Long, Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, exh. cat., Yale University Press (New Haven, 2019), cat. no. 14, fig. 15, pp. 37, 53
• Juan José Lahuerta, Gaudí, exh. cat., Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona, December 2021), ill. on p. 43

Exhibition History

• Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, Noyes & Blakeslee, Boston, 10/01/1879 - 10/31/1879
• Drawings by Mr. Ruskin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 02/01/1880 - 02/28/1880
• [John Ruskin exhibition], Smith College Museum of Art, 12/01/1949 - 12/21/1949; Yale University Art Gallery, 01/01/1950 - 01/31/1950
• The Spirit of the Cathedral, Old South Church, Boston, 05/01/1964 - 05/31/1964
• An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Victorian Artists in England, National Gallery of Canada, 03/01/1965 - 04/30/1965
• The Victorian Rebellion, Lakeview Center for Arts and Sciences, 09/13/1971 - 10/29/1971
• Präraffaelliten, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 11/23/1973 - 02/24/1974
• Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979
• John Ruskin and the Victorian Eye, Phoenix Art Museum, 03/06/1993 - 05/23/1993; Indianapolis Museum of Art, 06/22/1993 - 08/29/1993
• Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites, Tate Britain, London, 03/09/2000 - 05/28/2000
• 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
• Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin, Yale Center for British Art, 09/05/2019 - 12/08/2019

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