The Large Clock Tower, Evreux
Artist
Richard P. Bonington
(British, 1802 - 1828)
Date1824
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsOverall: 17 7/16 x 12 1/4in. (44.3 x 31.1cm)
Image: 13 3/16 x 8 1/4in. (33.5 x 21cm)
Image: 13 3/16 x 8 1/4in. (33.5 x 21cm)
ClassificationsPRINTS
Credit LineGift of Edward W. Root
Terms
Object number53.10
Description On View
Not on viewCollections
CopyrightNo known copyright restrictions.
Label TextBonington had only four years to live when, at the age of twenty-two, he produced this lithograph. It was made the year his reputation was established in France by winning a gold medal for a painting he exhibited at the Paris Salon. It is one of a number of exquisitely executed views he made of various picturesque or--as the text at the bottom of this image suggests--historically significant sites in the towns and cities of northern France. Prints such as this impressed Bonington's fellow artists in France and England. The painters Théodore Géricault and Joseph M.W. Turner both acknowledged the influence he had on their work.
PDS
February 2005
