Currently not on view
Water Mill, Simplon Village,
1877
Charles Herbert Moore, 1840–1930; born Hartfield, England; died New York, NY
x1955-71
Moore emerged in the 1860s as a leading figure in the Pre-Raphaelite movement dedicated to the teachings of John Ruskin, a British artist, author, and educator whose five-volume treatise Modern Painters (1843–60) had become influential with the American public. Ruskin’s distaste for industrial progress led him to propose an appreciation of nature, craftsmanship, and art history as the moral foundation for modern culture. Moore set aside his promising career as a landscape painter in 1871 to accept an appointment as a professor of drawing and medieval architecture at Harvard University. Taking a sabbatical from his teaching in 1877–78, Moore traveled to England to meet Ruskin and accompanied him on a trip throughout Italy sketching Gothic architecture, passing through the remote Swiss village at Simplon Pass on the Italian border.
Information
Title
Water Mill, Simplon Village
Dates
1877
Maker
Medium
Watercolor and gouache over graphite
Dimensions
28.6 x 39.7 cm. (11 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore, the artist's daughter, presented by Mrs. Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1955-71
Place Depicted
Switzerland, Simplon
Inscription
Dated and inscribed in black ink, on verso upper left: 1877. E.H.M. [in Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.'s hand]
Culture
Type
Materials
artist's family; gift of Miss Elizabeth Huntington Moore, the artist's daughter, presented by Mrs. Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 1 (1956): p. 26-27., p. 27
- Frank Jewett Mather, Charles Herbert Moore, landscape painter, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957)., pp. 25, 29, 71, fig. 14
- Barbara T. Ross, American Drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University: 130 Selected Examples (Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University, 1976)., pp. 40-41, no. 38; p. 41 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 160, cat. no. 36; p. 161 (illus.); p. 319, checklist no. 477
