Detailed life-like drawing of oval shaped leaves growing at the base of some rocks in a natural landscape.　
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A new mullen plant has not yet grown a stalk or flowered, this is a depiction of its long oval shaped light green leaves. They are clustered growing out from the center, with soft with pronounced veins. Short grass grows around it and the stones, a few dried oak leaves are scattered around. A vine or root is seen on the left, adhering to a rock in the pile. The colors are soft, the rocks are rounded stones, the kind we usually see forming a landscape boundary.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1926.33.45
People
Charles Herbert Moore, American (New York, NY 1840 - 1930 Harley Witney, Hampshire, England)
Title
Mullen and Rocks
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1883
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306295

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
19.7 x 28.6 cm (7 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown watercolor, l.r.: C.H.M., 1883
  • inscription: u.r., graphite: 10
  • inscription: verso, u.l., graphite: C. H. Moore / Mullen & Rocks

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Fine Arts Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; transferred to Fogg Art Museum, 1926.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Department, Harvard University
Accession Year
1926
Object Number
1926.33.45
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Linda S. Ferber and William H. Gerdts, The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, 1985), catalogue no. 55, reproduced in b/w p. 203
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, Melissa Renn, and Susan C. Ricci, The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2007), pp. 72-73, 94, pl. 28
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 245, cat. 220, ill.

Exhibition History

  • The New Path: Ruskin and the American Pre-Raphaelites, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, 03/29/1985 - 06/10/1985; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 07/03/1985 - 09/08/1985
  • The Last Ruskinians: Charles Eliot Norton, Charles Herbert Moore, and Their Circle, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/07/2007 - 07/08/2007

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