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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1901.23
People
John Ruskin, British (London, England 1819 - 1900 Brantwood, England)
Title
View of Chamonix
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1842
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299485

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor, white gouache, and graphite on gray-beige wove paper, darkened
Dimensions
34.3 x 49.7 cm (13 1/2 x 19 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: In graphite, lower left: Chamouni

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fine Arts Appropriation Fund
Accession Year
1901
Object Number
1901.23
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, The Works of John Ruskin, G. Allen (London, England, 1903 -1912), vol. 38, no. 425
  • Arthur Pope, Catalogue of Ruskin Exhibition in Memory of Charles Eliot Norton, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1909), no. 48
  • Joan Evans, ed., The Diaries of John Ruskin, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1956-1959), vol. 2, pl. 33
  • Gail S. Weinberg, Drawings of John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), no. 9
  • Paul Walton, Master Drawings by John Ruskin: Selections from the David Thomson Collection, Pilkington Press (London, 2000), fig. 2, p. 22

Exhibition History

  • Ruskin Exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/01/1909 - 02/28/1910
  • Unidentified Watercolor Exhibition, Winchester Art Association, 1940, Winchester Art Association, Winchester, 11/29/1939 - 12/31/1939
  • [John Ruskin exhibition], Smith College Museum of Art, 12/01/1949 - 12/21/1949; Yale University Art Gallery, 01/01/1950 - 01/31/1950
  • Drawings of John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/19/1979 - 03/04/1979

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