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
Provenance
Professor Harry Edwin Burton (1868-1945); given to present collection, 1945.
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