drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1868,0328.346
- Description
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View of Paris, with the Musée du Louvre, from the Pont Marie; broad view of river Seine with boats moored in right foreground, bridge in centre distance. 1802
Graphite
- Production date
- 1802
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 467 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a complete account of Girtin's Paris views, see the comment at 1868-3-28-344.
This is the drawing for Plate 3 of Girtin's 'Twenty Views in Paris...'. An impression of Girtin's soft-ground etching is in the Department, 1847-10-9-143(3). The version with aquatint by F.C.Lewis is 1855-6-9-1807. A working proof, touched up in places with red chalk, is in the V&A, E.612-1907. A detailed account of the etchings is found in a manuscript catalogue by Martin Hardie among the Girtin papers in the Department Library.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2002 July-Sep, London, Tate Britain, 'Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour', no.96
2003/4 July-Jan, Salford, The Lowry, 'The Impossible View?', no. 29
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0328.346
