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Watercolor Landscapes

Collection Type

  • Art

Date

1869

GUSN

GUSN-6657

Description

Two paintings: Top painting is a watercolor of blue mountains and a lake. Bottom painting is a castle and a village watercolor.

Details

Descriptive Terms

watercolors (paintings)
paper (fiber product)
oil pastels
pencils (drawing and writing equipment)
watercolor (paint)
busts (figures)
Picture
Landscape
Watercolor
Unidentified Paper
Pencil
Pastel
Bust
Landscape

Inscription

Loc on back: ?? Margaret/ Norton Shady Hill, Worsceter Art Museum title Label Lake of Brientz, from near the Gies bath hotel. Fogg Museum of Art/Loan 7437 F.M.A/ Title ""Lake of Brientz/ Artist: John Ruskin/ Owner: Proffessor Charles Eliot Norton/Return to Kirkland St. Cambridge, John Ruskin, (del) to C.E.N 1869/ Walks of Lucerne.

Maker

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 (Maker)

Dimensions

12 x 15 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Bequest oaf Susan Norton

Accession Number

1990.78

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