Interior of an Ancient Egyptian Temple

c.1888

Robert Caney

Artist, British, 1847 - 1911

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 37.3 x 44.7 cm (14 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.84


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

probably Miss Dinah Caney (sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1973, part of lot 299); (bought by Christopher Powney); Finchden Manor, Tenterden, Kent; Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York, 1977; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

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: 168 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 6 (in circle) 15 7/8 x 18 5/8 repair[?] / inl.[?] 20 3/8 x 22 5/8 / C

Wikidata ID

Q64628869


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