Forum Pompeii
Philippe Benoist, French, 1813 - 1905
about 1850
Lithograph on paper
Image: 7 13/16 × 10 7/8 in. (19.8 × 27.6 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 13/16 in. (22.3 × 30 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Professor Harry E. Burton, Class of 1908H
PR.945.49
Publisher
Lemercier et Cie., Paris
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Dessiné d'après nature et lith. par Ph. Benoist.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: IMp. par Lemercier à Paris; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, upper center: Philippe Benoist, French, 19th Century "Forum Pompeii"; reverse, inscribed, in graphite, center: H.E. Burton
Course History
ARTH 7, Pompeii in Antiquity and in the Modern Imagination , Steven Kangas, Winter 2012
ARTH 7.05, Pompeii in Antiquity and in the Modern Imagination, Steven Kangas, Winter 2020
ARTH 7.05, Pompeii in Antiquity and in the Modern Imagination, Steven Kangas, Winter 2020
ARTH 7.05, Pompeii in Antiquity and in the Modern Imagination, Steven Kangas, Winter 2020
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen - OPEN HOURS, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen - OPEN HOURS, Winter 2023
Art History 7.05, Pompeii: Antique & Modern, Ada Cohen - OPEN HOURS, Winter 2023
Provenance
Professor Harry Edwin Burton (1868-1945); given to present collection, 1945.
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