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Charles Louis Clérisseau (1721 - 1820)
Architectural ruins
1771
Bodycolour on paper
Height: 16in
Width: 23in
Width: 23in
Signed and Dated: Clérisseau 1771 [bottom right-hand corner]
Museum number: P68
On display: Picture Room
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
A classical composition of architectural ruins, with an arch to the left and in the foreground a group of peasants and a horseman.
Provenance
This work was in Soane's collection by c.1825 when it is shown in a section through the Picture Room looking east, Vol.82/82.
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