drawing
- Museum number
- Oo,4.12
- Description
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Ruins of the Great Temple at Selinus; fragments of columns heaped together, with one figure
Grey wash, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1777
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres
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Width: 369 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to W.H. Carpenter's 1845 MS catalogue of the Payne Knight drawings, the following inscription was on the original mount `Ruins of ye great Temple at Selinus, ye Capitals 12ft 10 inches diamr, May 1777'.
One of the watercolours made by Hearne to illustrate Richard Payne Knight's Sicilian tour of 1777. Hearne's watercolours were based on drawings made by Jakob Philipp Hackert and Charles Gore, who travelled with Payne Knight, and they were probably intended to illustrate a published account of the expedition which did not materialise.
See Barbara Milner, 'Thomas Hearne, 1744-1817: A catalogue of his watercolours and drawings in the British Museum', unpublished typescript (MA report for Courtauld Institute), 1983, no.16; and Claudia Stumpf, `Richard Payne Knight, Expedition into Sicily', London, 1986.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994 May-Aug, Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 'Goethe and the Visual Arts', no. 305
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Oo,4.12