John Ruskin
Between Verona and Vicenza stopping at the Railroad

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Artist John Ruskin British, 1819–1900

CultureBritish

Titles

Between Verona and Vicenza stopping at the Railroad

Date1852

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

Object number2019.16

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceAnne Elizabeth Dundas (1830-1913) [1]; by inheritance within the Dundas family; [Sotheby’s, New York, January 30, 2019, Lot 161]; purchased by MFAH, 2019.

[1] This work on paper along with two others have not appeared on the art market since the 19th century. Born into one of the most historically important and ancient families in Scotland, Anne Elizabeth Dundas was the daughter of William Pitt Dundas (1801-1883) and Mary Ane Stange (d. 1883), her grandfather was Lord Arniston, Lord President of Scotland and her great uncle was Viscount Melville. She was an accomplished watercolorist and spent much of her life in the south of France. Her younger sister, Adela Dundas (1840-1887) is known to have taken drawing lessons from Ruskin’s favorite pupil, William Ward, and it would appear that the family were loosely connected with Ruskin’s circle. Anne never married and in 1913 drew up a will. She indicated that the Ruskin watercolors should be placed on loan at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and remain there for 100 years after her death, or until the death of any of Queen Victoria’s descendants who had been living in 1913, whichever came later. The last of these descendants, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (b. 1913), died at the age of 94 in 2007, shortly before the required century was finished. Finally in 2017 the drawings were returned to the Dundas family.
Exhibition HistoryFitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1913–2018.
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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