Athens
Maker
(artist)
1812-1888
1812-1888
Title
Athens
Date of Production
1849
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 29 cm
Width: 51.9 cm
Width: 51.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1969.XX.1
Mode of Acquisition
Art Fund gift & grant aid, 1969
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Notes
This drawing shows an early stage in the development of the capital city with the erection a huge royal palace towering over the lower buildings of the village. This viewpoint is somewhere on the route of the Sacred Way between Athens and Eleusis, closed in by the slopes of Hymettus.
Provenance
A.J.N. Russell, Bramley; Gift of Russell via the Art Fund, 1969
Exhibition History
English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto (within the drawing, all in artist’s hand): upper left, in cloud: in graphite "w" and in brown ink "white"; upper centre in sky, graphite: “grey”; centre, in hills, graphite: “all purple”; right of centre below trees, pen and brown ink over graphite: “sheep”; left of centre, pen and brown ink written above same word in graphite: “path”; lower left, pen and brown ink: “Hymettus – all purple”; lower left, pen and brown ink and repeated but cut off at lower left corner in graphite: “Athens. / 8. April. 1849. / 2 ½. P.M”; lower right, pen and brown ink, circled: “135”. Verso: lower left, graphite, unclear: “8 pm [?]”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto (within the drawing, all in artist’s hand): upper left, in cloud: in graphite "w" and in brown ink "white"; upper centre in sky, graphite: “grey”; centre, in hills, graphite: “all purple”; right of centre below trees, pen and brown ink over graphite: “sheep”; left of centre, pen and brown ink written above same word in graphite: “path”; lower left, pen and brown ink: “Hymettus – all purple”; lower left, pen and brown ink and repeated but cut off at lower left corner in graphite: “Athens. / 8. April. 1849. / 2 ½. P.M”; lower right, pen and brown ink, circled: “135”. Verso: lower left, graphite, unclear: “8 pm [?]”.
Collector's mark: none.
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