View of Rome at Sunset, ca. 1912

Title

View of Rome at Sunset

Draughtsman

• Muirhead Bone

Production Place

• Rome

Period Produced

• 20th century

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Watercolour over pencil on fine wove paper

Material

• watercolours
• graphite-clay mixture
• vellum paper

Technique

• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• pencil drawing

Geographic Reference

• Scottish

Production Reason

• tree study
• architecture study
• landscape study
• autonomous drawing?
• study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert und bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): Rome - Muirhead Bone; verso bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): Distant View St. Peter, Rome / No. 5 from Monte Mario - Sunset

Captions Added Later

Verso unten rechts Stempel der Städtischen Galerie, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2371c)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1913

Genre

• landscape
• city view

Main Motif

• Rome
• St Peter's Basilica (Rome)
• building
• copse

Associated Persons and Institutions

• Michelangelo Buonarroti

Primary

• 61E(ROMA) names of cities and villages (ROMA)
• 25I12 prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
• 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone
• 24A2 sunset

Secondary

• 61F(SAN PIETRO (Rom)) names of historical buildings, sites, streets, etc. (SAN PIETRO (Rom))
• 25G3 trees