Object number1864.1.156

Crypt of St. Peter's in the East, Oxford, for John Britton's Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1835) volume 5

Date1815

Artist Frederick Mackenzie (English, 1787-1854)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor and ink

DimensionsMatted: 16 x 22 in. (40.64 x 55.88 cm)
Sheet: 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (14.92 x 19.69 cm)
Sight: 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 in. (14.92 x 19.69 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedNot signed or dated

BibliographyLandscapes of Retrospection (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1999), p.15 repr. 1869 Catalog, #152ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon

Vassar Exhibitions

Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

Exhibition History"No Incidents but a Ghost and a Storm: European Prints and Drawings of the Romantic Period," Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, 20 September - 15 December 1996;

Poughkeepsie, NY, FLLAC, Vassar College, "Landscapes of Retrospection," October 15 - December 19, 1999;

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, January 25 - March 25, 2001;

The Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 9 - September 2, 2001;

Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 9 - April 7, 2002 (see below)

Poughkeepsie, NY, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, "Catching Light: European and American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection," May 8- July 26, 2009.

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