Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Henry Moore, 1831–1895, British
Title:
Mer de Glace
Date:
1856
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 9/16in. (26.4 x 37cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, lower right: "Mer de Glace."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1344
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | ice | snow | glacier | mountains
Associated Places:
Alps | Mont Blanc | France | Mer de Glace (glacier)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Unto This Last (Watts Gallery) (Watts Gallery Trust, 2020-03-10 - 2020-11-01)

Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)

Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 2018-09-21 - 2018-12-09)

Past Time - Geology in European and American Art (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2019-02-16 - 2019-05-12)

Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992-11-18 - 1993-01-03)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-09-09 - 1992-11-01)

Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993-02-11 - 1993-04-12)
Publications:
Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2019, p. 195, no. 38, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11347