- Description
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- Creator(s)
- (?) John Henderson (1764-1843) after Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
- Title
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- The Bridge of Augustus at Rimini
- Date
- 1797 - 1798
- Medium and Support
- Watercolour and pen and ink on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 15.3 × 50.3 cm, 6 × 19 ¾ in
- Object Type
- Work from a Known Source: Foreign Master
- Subject Terms
- Italian View: Ancient Ruins
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- Collection
- Catalogue Number
- TG0892
- Description Source(s)
- Viewed in 2001 and 2018
Provenance
John Henderson (1764–1843); then by descent to John Henderson II (1797–1878) (lent to London, 1875); bequeathed to the Museum, 1878
Exhibition History
London, 1875, no.124 as ’An Old Bridge, Italy ... After Piranesi’
Bibliography
Binyon, 1898–1907, no.95 as 'A Bridge in Italy'; Davies, 1924, pl.73; British Museum, Collection as by Thomas Girtin (Accessed 14/09/2022)
Place depicted
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