Temple of Vesta at Tivoli

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

Artist, British, 1821 - 1906

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    watercolor heightened with white gouache over graphite on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 31 x 23 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.70.51

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Leger Galleries Ltd., London, 1964); (M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York); (Davis & Long Company, New York, by 1976); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1976

  • Collectors Gallery X, McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1976 (no cat.).

1985

  • Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906), Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, New York, 1985, 7, 34, no. 21, fig. 2 and repro. on cover (Hilarie Faberman).

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: 166 (color).

Inscriptions

by artist, lower right: HBB; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 8 3/4 x 11 3/4; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: Tivoli; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: WCA3627; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 6474A; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: C-1049; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 3927

Wikidata ID

Q64574120

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