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Classical ruins at Selinonte NPG 3944(21)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

attributed to John Partridge

The ancient ruins found throughout the Italian peninsular offered visitors both a ghostly reminder of a bygone age and proof of the creative output of a heroic past. Ruins also fuelled the contemporary craze for collecting, archaeology and antiquarianism. Attributed to John Partridge, this drawing is inscribed 'Selimonte' which suggests that it was made during a visit to this ancient Greco-Roman site in Sicily, called Selinunte in Italian. The jumbled heap of broken columns and plinths, having so artfully toppled on to a stone platform,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.