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John Ruskin and Constance Hilliard

Collection Type

  • Photography

Location Note

Norton Family Papers

GUSN

GUSN-195361

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Description

A carte-de-visite portrays critic and author, John Ruskin, and Constance Hilliard Churchill, who was a close associate of his. Both were friends of Charles Eliot Norton, who was the first professor of fine arts at Harvard University and a man of letters.

Details

Descriptive Terms

authors
architectural critics
professors (teacher)
double portraits
cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs

Additional Identification Number

DigitalID 000477
AccessID 703
Other identifier HNEDID-000477

Physical Description

1 carte-de-visite

Collection Code

PC035

Collection Name

Norton family photographic collection

Reference Code

PC035.TMP.002

Date Notes

October 1879

Places

Oxford (Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom)

Record Details

Material Type

cartes-de-visite (card photographs)
photographs

Other People

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
Hilliard, Constance

Description Level

Item

Location Note

Norton Family Papers

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