Information

Although there is no firm identification of the subject, it is likely that this watercolour depicts a view of Lake Geneva looking out from the town of Vevey, located at the northern end of the lake. A faint inscription at the bottom of the paper reads 'Vevey May 2[?]th' suggesting that this identification is the correct one. B. Cadbury bought it from the 1907 Fine Art Society Ruskin exhibition although it is unclear to which catalogue number this drawing relates.

  • Presented by Paul Cadbury, 1958.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist John Ruskin -

Inscriptions

Type Position(s) Method Date(s) Notes
Vevey May 2[5] th
Inscription bottom centre Handwritten - Barely legible.. In pencil.
 

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
Ruskin Exhibition
? Fine Art Society, 148 New Bond Street, London 1907-03 - 1907-04
 
Peintures et aquarelles anglaises 1700-1900 du musée de Birmingham
104 Musée de Lyon 1966-10-23 - 1966-11-20
 
British Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Watercolours
80 Art Museum of the Socialist Republic of Romania, Bucharest 1982-12-08 - 1983-01-02
80 National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens 1983-01-12 - 1983-03-06
80 Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest 1983-03-17 - 1983-05-08
 
John Ruskin: The Last Chapter
- Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield 1989-09-02 - 1989-12-22
 
Magnificent Switzerland: Views by Foreign Artists 1770-1914
67 Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Villa Favorita, Lugano 1991-08-01 - 1991-10-21
67 Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva 1991-11-14 - 1992-02-02
 
Le sentiment de la montagne
129 Musée de Grenoble 1998-03-01 - 1998-06-01
129 Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin 1998-07-01 - 1998-10-15
 
Orte der Sehnsucht. Mit Künstlern auf Reisen
310.3 Landesmuseum fur Kunst & Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany 2008-09-28 - 2009-01-11
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
Magnificent Switzerland: Views by Foreign Artists 1770-1914
1991 Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, Lugano and Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva repr. pl. 67
 
Le Sentiment de la Montagne
Lionel Bergatto 1998 Musée de Grenoble and Palazzo Bricherasio p. 216, no. 129
 
Orte der Sehnsucht. Mit Künstlern auf Reisen
2008 Landesmuseum fur Kunst & Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany p. 357; repr. p. 357

Provenance

Purchased at the Ruskin exhibition 1907 by B. Cadbury; Cadbury family.

Associated places

Name Type
Lake Geneva, Vevey, Switzerland Depicted

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