View of a Landscape

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Drawing details

Title: View of a Landscape
Date: c.1854-59
Media: Pencil on white paper
Dimensions: 23.9 x 19.0 cm
Location: Leighton House Museum
Picture credit: Leighton House Museum, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Reference number: LHO/D/1139 p.43
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right "P. Nomentana" in pencil, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

Porta Nomantana is situated outside Rome, it was walled up by Pius IV but the north tower remained.

Description

Sheet pasted into an album of drawings. Study of a landscape. 

Provenance

Collection of Adelaide Sartoris (ne+ Kemble, opera singer, writer and society hostess, 1814-1879); sold through the Maas Gallery (art dealers) in 1969; purchased by Leighton House Museum in 1969