print
- Museum number
- 1877,0609.1780
- Title
- Object: James Dawkins and Robert Wood Esqrs First discovering Sight of Palmyra
- Description
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Dawkins and Wood, wearing Eastern dress, dismounted at the corner of a building with a tomb figure on an inscribed plinth projecting from it, looking and pointing to left at the ruins of ancient Heliopolis in Palmyra, with Giovanni Borra standing behind them, sketching, a boy holding a horse on the right, Turkish companions on horseback and camels; after Hamilton. 1775
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1775
- Dimensions
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Height: 495 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 548 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The painting is in the National Gallery of Scotland.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0609.1780
