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Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 - 1820)
Architectural ruins
1763
Bodycolour on paper
Signed and Dated: Clérisseau / Roma / 1763 [lower right, on stone parapet]
Museum number: P137
Not on display
Curatorial note
In this composition a white horse drinks from a roadside trough in the right foreground into which water pours from a ruined fountain. In the centre an aqueduct with distant hills beyond and to the right a ruined Roman arch.
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