1926.33.157: Towers at Baden

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1926.33.157

People

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

Title

Towers at Baden

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1863(?)

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298671

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

9.7 x 14.7 cm (3 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: l.r.: Baden JR

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

1926.33.157

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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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. 159
• Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 38

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

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