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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1919.48
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/298667

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, gouache, and brown ink on gray-beige wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
37 x 54.7 cm (14 9/16 x 21 9/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel Sachs
Accession Year
1919
Object Number
1919.48
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 29
  • 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. 29
  • "The Loan Collection of Watercolors at the St. Botolph Club--First Article", Boston Evening Transcript (December 9, 1891), p. 8 [or 1919.47]
  • 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. 1497, 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. 2
  • Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 1, pl. 8
  • Paul Walton, The Drawings of John Ruskin, Oxford University Press (UK) (London, 1972), p. 52, pl. 33
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 13
  • 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by John Ruskin" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1994), Unpublished, pp. 1-17 passim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), under cat. no. 42

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
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979

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