Object details

Accession number

P17e32

Primary Creator

John Ruskin (London, 1819 - 1900, Coniston, England)

Full title

The Casa Loredan, Venice

Creation Date

1850

Provenance

Bequeathed by the English architectural critic and author John Ruskin (1819-1900) to the English watercolorist Arthur Severn (1842-1931) and his wife Mrs. Arthur Severn (Joan Agnew, 1846-1924), 1900.Purchased by the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), Cambridge from the Severn family, Brantwood, 1900.Puchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton for $250 on 7 March 1901.

Marks

Inscribed (left, in pencil): Same as little / dotted column / drawn at St. Marks // ... columns / ... together have / capitals on both / others all different / Marks School.
Inscribed (mat): Casa Loredan / J. Ruskin del. 1850 / See "Stones of Venice" ii. 390 (4). Brought from Brantwood, 1900. / C.E. Norton.

Dimensions

29 x 44 cm (11 7/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Display Media

Pen and brush in brown ink and watercolor on gray paper

Web Commentary

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Permanent Gallery Location

Short Gallery

Bibliography

Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 1.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 312.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 127-28.
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 8, no. 18 (3 Jan. 1965), p. 2.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). Drawings: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1968), pp. 34-35, no. 16.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 215.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2003), p. 95, ill. (as about 1850)
Alan Chong in Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 109, 233, 250, 274, fi.g 186. (as 1850)

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