The Great Villa of the Quintilii on the Appian Way, 1789

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 41.8 x 55 cm (16 7/16 x 21 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Collection

Accession Number

2009.70.150

Artists / Makers

Carlo Labruzzi (artist) Italian, 1748 - 1817

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: 70

Provenance

Sir Richard Colt Hoare [1758-1838]. (possibly with W. Palmer, printsellers to Her Majesty, No. 163, The Strand, London, 1794). Included in one of four albums alleged to have been found in a bombed house in London during the Second World War; (John Manning, London, 1960); Joseph F. McCrindle [1923-2008], New York; Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation, 2008; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

McCrindle, Joseph F.

Exhibition History

1960: Carlo Labruzzi (1748-1817): An Exhibition of Fine Watercolour Drawings of the Appian Way. John Manning Gallery, London, 1960, no. 7, 8 or 9.

1973: The Academy of Europe: Rome in the 18th Century. The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1973, no. 119.

2012: The McCrindle Gift: A Distinguished Collection of Drawings and Watercolors. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2012, 94-95, no. 36 (entry by Julie Blake Shook).