print
- Museum number
- 1886,1206.39
- Title
- Object: The Sculpture Gallery
- Description
-
Classical setting, with man presenting a group of four adults and two children with a dark sculpted basin decorated with female figure whose body ends in a snake's tail; the figures are surrounded by sculptures, among which a statue of the infant Hercules wrestling the snakes and a bust of Pericles at left, and a carved pedestal decorated with winged lion protomes at right; in the background, at right, doorway decorated with acanthus moulding and opening onto a room with oil lamps hung from the ceiling; before letter but with publication detail; signed proof. 1875/77
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1875-1877
- Dimensions
-
Height: 633 millimetres
-
Width: 497 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- Declared to the Printsellers Association on 24 December 1875. A pair to P&D 1886-12-6-38. The painting was commissioned by Ernest Gambart in 1875 and is now in the the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York. See Vern Swanson, 'The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema', (London; Garton & Co, 1990), no.193, p.185. The print was exhibited at the summer exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1878 (no.1182) with that of 'The Painting Gallery'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1886
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1886,1206.39
