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(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Ruskin
(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Ruskin

photographer (British, 1863 - 1962)
Date1870
Place MadeLondon, Greater London, England, Europe
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions10.5 x 6 cm (4 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.009905
eMuseum ID724773
Other Number2.c.1.7.x
Previous Number2.c.1.7.x.01
EmbARK ObjectID24287
TMS Source ID8852
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryArtist, author, and critic John Ruskin was a vital figure in the rediscovery of late medieval painters such as Fra Angelico and Giotto, artists whom Isabella Stewart Gardner also admired and collected. Gardner owned his germinal series The Stones of Venice and shelved it in the museum’s Short Gallery nearby one of Ruskin’s drawings, The Casa Loredan, Venice (1850). This photograph would have been used in the nineteenth century as a calling card (known as a carte de visite).
MarksNotesPrinted (along bottom): ELLIOTT & FRY Copyright 55 BAKER ST
Inscribed in black ink (lower center): John Ruskin
Printed (verso): crest with crown reading in old French "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense" [Shame on whosoever would think badly of it] / ELLIOTT & FRY, / 55, BAKER STREET, / PORTMAN SQUARE, / LONDON, W. / No. ......
ProvenanceNotesPossibly a gift from Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), scholar and critic, to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 4 June 1904, Cambridge, Massachusetts.