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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.156
People
Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Tower of the Frari and other buildings
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305924

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and white gouache over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
39 x 28.4 cm (15 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.)
image: 39 x 19.5 cm (15 3/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: left margin, graphite, in artist's hand: Top of tower; Top of house
  • inscription: verso, graphite: DWR

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to the Fogg Art Museum, 1917.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.156
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • 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), p. 19, fig. 4
  • Marie Frank, "Denman Waldo Ross and the Theory of Pure Design", American Art (Fall 2008), 22 no. 3, pp. 72-89, p. 82, repr. fig. 19
  • Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 33, repr. p. 35 as fig. 1.4

Verification Level

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