oil painting
- Museum number
- 1837,0720.1
- Description
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Painting of Stonehenge. Oil on canvas in frame. The monument is shown at noon from west of southwest.
- Production date
- 1837
- Dimensions
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Height: 1.80 metres
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Width: 2.40 metres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2008 6 Oct-present London, Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, LT Loan
2007 15 Sep-2 Dec, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 'Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007'
- Acquisition notes
- The paintings were presented to the Museum in 1837. 26th September 1837 a letter was laid before the Standing Committee with the paintings. A considerable correspondence with Tongue is preserved in the Museum’s Central Archive. The painting was cleaned and restored in the V&A in 1934 by Mr Cave: see the correspondence of 1934 bound in the P&D reports to Trustees.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1837,0720.1
