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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.156
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
Sketch of Verona
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1876
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298630

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper, darkened to brown
Dimensions
17.7 x 21.6 cm (6 15/16 x 8 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Verona J.R.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Transferred to the Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.156
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Ruskin, Notes by Mr. Ruskin. Part I. On His Drawings by the Late J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Part II. On His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner, exh. cat., The Fine Art Society (London, 1878), no. 39(B)
  • 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. 49
  • 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. 49
  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 2081
  • Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 38
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 57
  • Mary Jo Davis, "Technical Examination of Twelve Discolored Drawings and Watercolors by John Ruskin" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-17 passim
  • Theresa Smith, "Notes toward a History of Paper Conservation at the Fogg Art Museum and Rutherford John Gettens' Bleaching Notebook, 1951-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, November 2008), Unpublished, passim

Exhibition History

  • Notes by Mr. Ruskin. Part I. On His Drawings by the Late J.M.W. Turner, R.A. Part II. On His Own Handiwork Illustrative of Turner, The Fine Art Society, London, 01/01/1878 - 12/31/1878
  • 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
  • Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979

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