drawing
- Museum number
- 1953,1012.2
- Description
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Two ladies under a pergola below a cliff; the side of a rocky cliff, a path curving around to the left and passing beneath an arbor, ladies seated and standing near the foreground, figures carrying bales descending a steep path in the mid-distance
Watercolour, touched with bodycolour
- Production date
- 1843-1911
- Dimensions
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Height: 365 millimetres
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Width: 264 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Gere 1994
No. 55 in the 1968 exhibition at Carlisle is a larger water-colour of a rather similar composition, of a group of Italian peasant-woman under a less elaborate pergola.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994-5 Sept-Jan, BM, Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, no.76
- Acquisition date
- 1953
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1953,1012.2