San Giorgio dei Greci, Seen from an Arcade

1824/1829

Samuel Prout

Artist, British, 1783 - 1852

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink over graphite, with watercolor and gouache, touched with gum arabic, on medium wove paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 42.3 × 27.5 cm (16 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.98.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Murray III, London (1808 - 1892); by descent; (Guy Peppiatt Fine Art Ltd, London); purchased by NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 126.

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

2013

  • Peppiatt, Guy. British Drawings and Watercolours, 2013. London, 2013: no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left on stone block in pen and brown ink: S Prout; lower right in column: BIERO / PIETRO / V 5 13099 / [a pair of spectacles]

Wikidata ID

Q64630409

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