print
- Museum number
- 1982,U.1809
- Title
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Object: Vue du Château de Sant-Alessio
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Series: Voyage Pittoresque En Sicile
- Description
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View of a castle built on a mountain top with a round tower, approached from a zig-zagging path to right from the sea-shore, with a small sailing ship drawn up on shore, and a rowing boat figures nearby and a mounted man with a second laden horse asking directions of a pedestrian on the country path approaching the beach in the centre foreground; after Cassas.
Aquatint and etching
- Production date
- 1822-1826 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 427 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Voyage pittoresque en Sicile', a series of aquatints representing views of Sicily, published by Didot l'ainé in 1822.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1982
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1982,U.1809
