1593000276000 1578573329000 Standard Record object-240097 1747159768872 1582641031000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-240097 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240097 616ce08c-54e7-30c9-ac88-f28a4080784a 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print Paintings, Drawings and Prints A moonlit scene. A pair of travellers in the right foreground pause to gaze upon the ruins of a classical temple, a colonnaded archway to centre left and a dome rising above. A third figure sits on a ruined block in the centre foreground. Trees beyond to the right. P.15066-R 1 accession number P.15066-R 240097 priref 240097 Chaloner Smith 3 (p.1039, unlisted but described) Nagler (Künstler-Lexicon) 13.10 (p.251) uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240097 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240097 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Given by Augustus Arthur VanSittart, ?1879 reference agent-149691 adlib-agent-149691 306d0470-c7ce-3947-ab11-bb4523f40896 VanSittart, Augustus Arthur 1879 1879 1879 given 1683 1683 1683 circa 1683 1695 1 1695 1695 1695 printmaker reference agent-116075 adlib-agent-116075 a9d5660e-eb36-3257-9b84-ebb48f047270 Robinson, Robert publisher reference agent-127365 adlib-agent-127365 5cc2e129-5ac6-3218-b54b-a80a1bc2359c Smith, John Mezzotint. Re-published state. Engraved with the title in the inscription space at lower centre: 'The ruin'd Temple of Diana'. Engraved with printmaker's name and publisher at lower right: 'R Robinson fe : I S ex:'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: 'Vansittart Collection'; '524 (1)'. It is thought that Robinson began making mezzotints about 1683 (See Ganz, 'Fancy Pieces: Genre Mezzotints ...', p.6). James Atkins Ganz lists iv states of the plate, with state i executed and published by Robinson himself, state ii published by Isaac Beckett (production details altered to 'R Robinson fe: I.B. ex:') and state iii, as here, being the re-published plate by Beckett's pupil, John Smith, where Beckett's excudit is replaced with 'I.S. ex:'. A pair with Robinson's, The Ruined Temple of Apollo. reference term-136481 adlib-term-136481 ff114b08-4aa4-38d7-be1c-bf772a6edbea 18th Century reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print history note VanSittart gave 1,485 engravings to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1879 and this mezzotint was probably included within this group. The number written in large script on the verso almost certainly relate to some kind of count by curators at the time of the acquisition. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print

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