print
- Museum number
- 1880,0710.114
- Title
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Object: Couvent de Tivoli (Italie)
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 109: two monks in a low room with an archway and flagstones, lit by a small window; the man to left stirring the contents of a pan on a tripod, the other to right seated on a stone bench; vegetables on the floor in the foreground; after Paul Alfred de Curzon. c.1854
Lithograph on grey chine collé
- Production date
- 1854 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres (image)
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Width: 257 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The entry for this print in the Bibliographie de la France is dated 29 July 1854, no. 2750.
For another impression, bound in one of three bound volumes in the Department of Prints and Drawings (1936,0302.14.1-49, 1936,0302.15.1-49 and 1936,0302.16.1-49), see 1936,0302.16.14. For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
According to the list of plates, the convent at Tivoli is on the site of ancient Tibur, and replaced a temple to Venus.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Acquisition notes
- 1880,0710.1 to 250 constitute a series of plates for 'Les artistes anciens et modernes' from 1842-60.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1880,0710.114