A Grotto (The Stables of the Villa Maecenas, Tivoli?)

c. 1700

Francis Place

Artist, British, 1647 - 1728

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    William B. O'Neal Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18.9 × 34 cm (7 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.175.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

By descent in the artist's family to Patrick Allan Fraser [1812 - 1890]; by descent to (Fraser sale, Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1931, no. 137?). Iolo A. Williams [1890-1962]; by descent until (sale, Christie's, London, 31 July 1979, no. 62). Private collection; (online sale, Bonham's, Oxford, 14 October 2014, no. 461); private collection; (Lowell Libson & Johnny Yarker Ltd, British Art, London; purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • The Spirit and Force of Art: Drawing in Britain 1600 - 1750. Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd, London, 2018, no. 34 (color)(cat. by Jonny Yarker).

2023

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

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