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James Bruce, 1730–1794, British, No. 6 Temple of Neptune the King, View and Elevation of the 2nd temple - seen from the east, undated
- Title:
- No. 6 Temple of Neptune the King, View and Elevation of the 2nd temple - seen from the east
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 15/16 x 11 5/8 inches (37.9 x 29.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "Temple of Neptune the King | No 6"; in graphite, lower center: "[...] 2d View [and] Elevation of the 2d temple seen from the East"; in pen and brown ink, verso, upper left: "Temple of Neptune the King"; verso, lower center: "View and Elevation of the 2d. Temple - Seen from the East."
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- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.8498
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cattle | Classical | columns (architectural elements) | Doric order | figures (representations) | pediments | ruins | temples
- Associated Places:
- Paestum
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15228
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Sigrid De Jong, Rediscovering architecture : Paestum in eighteenth-century architectural experience and theory, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014, p. 148, fig. 97b, DG70.P3 J65 2014 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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