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Price: $1,800
Era: 19th century / 1800's
Country of Origin: United Kingdom > England
Materials: Paper
Condition: Excellent Condition
Style: Art > Academic Art (1800-1900), Art > Romanticism (1760-1869) Size: Overall Dimensions - Image
8" H X 11" W
20.32cm H X 27.94cm W
Overall Dimensions - Frame
13" H X 16" W
33.02cm H X 40.64cm W
Item description:
An English tourist's view of the Triumphal Arch at Susa, 1816. Watercolor applied with a brush, ink under-drawing.
This watercolor records the Roman arch at Susa (ancient Segusium). Shelley visited the site on his entry to Italy and writes in a letter dated Milan, April 1818: "A ruined arch of magnificent proportions, in the Greek taste, standing in a kind of road of green lawn, overgrown with violets and primroses, and in the midst of stupendous mountains, and a blonde woman, of light and graceful manners, something in the style of Fuseli's Eve, were the first things we met in Italy".
inscribed on the reverse: "Triumphal Arch at Susa erected to Augustus Caesar" and dated "August 14th 1816".
Provenance: Rodgers Collection, U.K.
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