Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
Title:: Paestum: No. 4 View of the Interior part of the 2nd temple from the east front
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (34.3 x 30.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in graphite, upper center: "No. 4"; in brown wash and graphite, lower center: "[W]ale 4th View of the Interior part of the 2d temple from the East front."; in pen and brown ink, verso, lower center: "View of the Interior part of the 2d. Temple from the East front"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1977.14.8496
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: ruins | figures (representations) | temples | columns (architectural elements) | Doric order | Classical | interior | architectural subject | cattle | animals | goats
Associated Places:: Paestum
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: Sigrid De Jong, Rediscovering architecture : Paestum in eighteenth-century architectural experience and theory, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2014, p. 148, fig. 99c, DG70.P3 J65 2014 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:15226