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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1917.165
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
San Barnaba, Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1876-1877
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/305982

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite on buff wove paper
Dimensions
27.3 x 19.1 cm (10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Tide at point of [ ... ]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Rio St. Barnaba

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1917

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Denman W. Ross
Accession Year
1917
Object Number
1917.165
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL and London, England, 1989), p. 59-60, fig. 65
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Susan C. Ricci, "The Last Ruskinians", American Art Review (March -April 2007), XIX, no. 2, pp. 80-89, repr. p. 81
  • 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. 71, 94, pl. 26
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 241, cat. 198, ill.
  • Marie Frank, Denman Ross and American Design Theory, University Press of New England (Hanover, NH, 2011), p. 33, repr. p. 34 as fig. 1.3

Exhibition History

  • American Watercolor Society Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 01/01/1882 - 01/01/1882
  • 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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