Pompeiian Wall Decoration

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache with gray and brown wash and pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 x 17.5 cm (7 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.43

Artists / Makers

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (artist) Venetian, 1762 - 1844

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: 507 (scratched out); by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 43; by later hand, upper right verso in pencil: [11f?]; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 5/11 (in circle); by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 163 (scratched out)

Provenance

Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Bibliography

2012: Grasselli, Margaret M., and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., eds. The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 179 (color).