Object number1864.1.104

Ruined Interior Near Tehran, Persia

Date1838

Artist Thomas Colman Dibdin (English, 1810-1893)

CultureEnglish

MediumWatercolor, gouache, ink, and graphite on thick cream wove paper

DimensionsMatted: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 x 40.64 cm)
Sight: 14 x 10 in. (35.56 x 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 14 1/4 x 10 in. (36.2 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Matthew Vassar

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

SignedSigned and dated (LL): T.C. Dibdin 1838; (LL, in pencil): Dibdin

InscribedInscribed (LR, in pencil, possibly in Magoon's hand): Ruin in Tehoran, Persia

BibliographyLandscapes of Retrospection (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 1999), p. 64 repr. ProvenanceCollections: Elias Magoon
Exhibition HistoryPoughkeepsie, 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).

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