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Description: | Hilly landscape with three ruins, annotated with a number with corresponds to a name printed at the bottom of the paper. In the foreground left is one column, with broken columns and stones on the ground around this: the Temple of Hercules. In the centre The Temple of Concord, a large classical temple with a six column façade. Behind this on the same hill, the Temple of Juno Lucina, this structure has no roof and few intact columns. There is a group with horse and dog in the foreground, a man with two horses in the middle distance and a couple by the central temple.
Printed across bottom ' P. Sandby Fecit/ Fabris pint./RUINS NEAR AGRIGENTUM IN SICILY./1.Temple of Juno Lucina. 2.Temple of Concord. 3.Temple of Hercules./Ruines aupres d'Agrigentum en Sicile./Publish'd as the Act directs, by P. Sandby St. Georges Row Oxford Turnpike March 1778.'
Accession number: NCM 1899-27 | Subjects: | topography horses ruins architecture landscapes figures | Temporal: | [1778] | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | by SANDBY/Paul after FABRIS/Pietro; published by SANDBY/Paul | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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