- Title:
- Mer de Glace
- Date:
- 1856
- Medium:
- Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 9/16in. (26.4 x 37cm) and Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 5/8 inches (26.7 × 37.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in gray ink, lower right: "Mer de Glace."
Watermarks: J Whatman/ Turkey Mill/ 1855
Signed and dated in gray ink, lower right: " H. Moore. | Aug 18th 1856"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1344
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- glacier | ice | landscape | mountains | snow
- Associated Places:
- Alps | France | Mer de Glace (glacier) | Mont Blanc
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 1993-02-11 - 1993-04-12)
Victorian Landscape Watercolors (Yale Center for British Art, 1992-09-09 - 1992-11-01)
Victorian Landscape Watercolors (The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992-11-18 - 1993-01-03)
Ruskin - Past: Present: Future (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-20 - 2000-02-27)
Unto this Last: 200 Years of John Ruskin (Yale Center for British Art, 2019-09-05 - 2019-12-08)
- Publications:
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Timothy J. Barringer, Unto this last : two hundred years of John Ruskin, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 195, cat. 38, NJ18.R895 .B37 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:11347
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Henry Moore, 1831–1895, British, Mer de Glace, 1856
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