Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Inigo Richards, 1730/31?–1810, British
Title:
The Colosseum
Date:
1776
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
15 3/8 x 20 1/4 inches (39.1 x 51.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.527
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | horse (animal) | ruins | cityscape | Roman architecture | men | Classical | Roman | arch | figures | belvedere | amphitheater (built work) | triumphal arch | arena
Associated Places:
Italy | Rome | Colosseum
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 186-187, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, p. 146, no. III.10, pl. 121, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1011