1919.47: Falls of Schaffhausen

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.47

People

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

Title

Falls of Schaffhausen

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1842

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298666

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, brown ink, gouache, and graphite on cream wove paper

Dimensions

31.4 x 47.3 cm (12 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.47

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 28
• 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. 28
• "The Loan Collection of Watercolors at the St. Botolph Club--First Article", Boston Evening Transcript (December 9, 1891), p. 8 [or 1919.48]
• Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Watercolors, exh. cat., St. Botolph Club (Boston, 1891), no. 19(?)
• E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 1496, repr. vol. 13, p. 583
• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 1
• Fogg Art Museum Handbook, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1936), ill. p. 113
• Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 1, pl. 9
• Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), p. 52, pl. 32
• Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 12
• 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. 168, fig. 125
• 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by John Ruskin" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-17 passim
• Robert Hewison, Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 2000), no. 42, p. 65, 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. 21, 86, 96, pl. 47
• Joanna Selborne, ed., Life, Legend, Landscape: Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, exh. cat., The Courtauld Gallery (London, 2011), pp. 29, 87, repr. p. 29 as fig. 8

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
• Loan Collection of Watercolors, St. Botolph Club, 12/01/1891 - 12/31/1891
• Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
• Ruskin and His Circle, Tate Britain, London, 01/17/1964 - 02/15/1964
• 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

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