A Sightseer with a Staff Standing on an Ancient Fragment before the Arch of Septimus Servius | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M23215
People: Hubert Robert, French (Paris 1733 - 1808 Paris)
Title: A Sightseer with a Staff Standing on an Ancient Fragment before the Arch of Septimus Servius
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Les Soirées de Rome, plate 8
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1764
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/263559

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Etching
Dimensions: 13.6 x 9.5 cm (5 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Unidentified collector, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Baudicour 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year: 1996
Object Number: M23215
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 74h, p. 129 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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