John Ruskin
Between Verona and Vicenza, Stopping at the Railroad

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Artist John Ruskin (British, 1819–1900)British, 1819–1900

CultureBritish

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Between Verona and Vicenza, Stopping at the Railroad

DateFebruary 24, 1852

Place depictedItaly

MediumWatercolor and graphite on wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 7 7/8 × 15 1/16 in. (20 × 38.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Emily Fairfax Coates, and her father, Francis Graham Coates

Object number2019.16

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Prints and Drawings

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The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceSir. John Simon (1816–1904); [his sale, Messrs Trollope London, By order of the Executors of Sir John Simon. K.C.B., deceased, 40 Kensington Square, W. . . . The Contents of the Residence…including a number of water-colour drawings, by J. Ruskin . . . Etc, November 16, 1904, lot 211 (as Study of Sky and outlines of Hills from railway between Verona and Vicenza); Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid (1835–1911); Anne Elizabeth Dundas (1830–1913); by inheritance within the Dundas family; [Sotheby’s, New York, January 30, 2019, lot 161]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed and dated in ink, bottom left corner: Between Verona + Vicenza / Stopping in railroad - Feb. 24th 1852
Recto: Inscribed in graphite (erased), lower left: J Ruskin
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower left: illegible [cursive] 2

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