Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Rocky Mountains, Canada].
Call Number
D Middle 76/GC168/Box 05/Normal/19th c./Artists P-R GA 2005.00780
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc1j92gn15p
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1819-1900
Extent
1 item ; sheet 12 x 17.6 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of J. Monroe Thorington, Princeton University Class of 1915.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings on paper
Inscribed in ink on frame backing: 'With my apologies, kid! Alberta, or part of it, in // Canadian Rocky Thunder weather. It's a great // old pile of upswing and to my type of mind always // acts as a signal of something. What! ---- God // knows. I certainly don't, but I feel it just the same.' [Unsigned]
Inscribed in pencil, verso: "From J.M.T. Sept. 1949".
Inscribed on frame label, lower right: "This drawing by John Ruskin formed a part of his personal collection at Brantwood which was sold at auction by Sotheby & co., London, May 1931".
Item description: Part of a collection of approximately 95 prints and drawings, unframed, some matted; six framed prints and one framed pencil drawing, of Alpine views and one portrait of the Emperor Maximillian I, "the first climber to be depicted using various articles of mountaineering equipment," by Lucas Van Leyden.

Discovery Information

Subject
Landscapes—Alberta
Landscapes—Canada
Mountains—Alberta—In art
Rocky Mountains—In art
Canadian Rockies (B.C. and Alta.)—In art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
8

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7474afe4-2925-4f64-bb67-c056853f19bc/manifest