Lowell Libson & Jonny Yarker Ltd

  • Pen, ink and watercolour on paper
  • 16 ½ × 21 inches · 420 × 535 mm
  • Drawn in 1813

Collections

  • Sotheby’s, 25 March 1965, lot.145 (£120);
  • W A Brandt (1902-1978), acquired at the above;
  • By descent to 2023

Exhibitions

  • London, Royal Academy, 1813 (835) ‘Architectural composition: The vapour rising from the miraculous fountain of Agno to supply the earth with rain, in the mountain of Lycaeus, agreeably to the wishes of the Arcadians – Vide Pausanias, b. viii. V.38’;
  • New York, Richard L. Feigen & Co, ‘Joseph Gandy – Visionary Architect’, 2006

Literature

  • Brian Lukacher, Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England, London, 2006, pp.92-94, reproduced pl.100;
  • Jas Elsner, ‘Picturesque and Sublime: Impacts of Pausanias in Late-Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain’, Classical Reception Journal, vol.2, Iss.2, 2010, p.241, reproduced.

Private collection, USA