Pen and brown ink, brown wash, graphite and scraping out on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (29.8 x 40 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink lower right: "Macugnaga | <Mcagnaca.> | J. Ruskin - 1845"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1585
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
rocks (landforms) | houses | trees | mountains | valley (landform) | landscape | bridges (built works) | cabins (houses)
Associated Places:
Italy | Piemonte | Macugnaga | Novara | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Unto this Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)John Ruskin - Artist and Observer (National Gallery of Canada, 2014-02-14 - 2014-05-11)John Ruskin - Artist and Observer (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 2014-07-04 - 2014-09-24)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites (Tate Britain, 2000-03-09 - 2000-05-28)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. 185, no. 34a, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)John Dixon Hunt, The art of Ruskin and the spirit of place, Reaktion Books, London, p. 39, fig. 22, NJ18.R895 H86 2020Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)