Views in the Levant: The Columns of Augustus at Brundisium
Date:
1785
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, pen and black ink, gray ink, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 16 5/16 × 10 3/8 inches (41.4 × 26.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen with black ink, lower center: "THE COLUMNS OF AUGUSTUS AT BRUNDUSIUM. | Anciently Lights were placed on these columns to shew the | communication between the harbours. | 10 20 30 40 feet"; inscribed in pen with red ink, lower center: "Taken on the spot March 4, 1785. Willey Reveley f."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Windows on that world, essays on British art presented to Brian Allen , The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 2012, pp. 164-67, fig. 91, N6766 .W56 2012 (YCBA)