- Title:
- Sir Robert Smirke's Continental Tour
- Part Of:
Collective Title: A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804
- Date:
- 1802-1804
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and brown ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, center: "Sir Robert Smirke's Continental Tour | Accompanying These Folio Volumes | of Sketches [which] he found in drawer | in Pedestal - his Journal & interesting | letters - giving the history of his Early Tour | in pursuance of Study of all objects | of Interest architectural & otherwise | while visiting the several countries in | the Continent between the years 1802 and 1804 | these drawings have been collected & placed | in order / as nearly as possible / according to | the dates of the letters & his family. In the | Several Places visited by him in his | Tour. Through the Continent - additional | interest is attached to his Tour Through | Greece - as refined & in the notes - to his Journal."
Watermark: "Original | Turkey Mill | Kent"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.369
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26535
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Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British, Sir Robert Smirke's Continental Tour, 1802-1804
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