'In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. There is an S-shaped area of retouching through her neck, ear and to the right of her head. Lesser retouchings to his face, the sculpture, her left shoulder, right arm and neck. Ultraviolet light reveals scattered flecks of retouching, particularly to her legs, between the reeds and his robes.

There is a fine craquelure pattern across the surface, only visible upon close inspection otherwise the work appears in good overall condition, ready to hang. p.88 Īlison Smith (ed.), Exposed – The Victorian Nude, 2001, Illustrated p.98 Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 2001, pp.88-91, 98, illustrated plate 79. Michael Liversidge and Catherine Edwards (eds.), Imagining Rome – British Artists and Rome in the Nineteenth Century, 1996, illustrated p.152 Russell Ash, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1995, illustrated, unpaginated Richard Jenkyns, Dignity and Decadence - Victorian Art and the Classical Revival, 1992, pp.125-8, illustrated p.124 Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1990, p.196, cat.no.219 illustrated p.381 Kestner, Mythology and Misogyny – The Social Discourse of Nineteenth-Century British Classical-Subject Painting, 1989, p.275, illustrated p.308 Richard Jenkyns, The Victorians and Ancient Greece, 1980, p.135, illustrated p.323 Ĭhristopher Wood, Olympian Dreamers, 1983, p.115, illustrated p.118

Swanson, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema – The Painter of the Victorian Vision of the Ancient World, 1977, illustrated p.22 Rudolph Dircks, ‘The Later Works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema O.A, R.A., R.W.S.’, 1910, p.28 Īnna Maria Diana Wilhemina Stirling, The Richmond Papers, 1926, p.13:įrederic Louis Bastet, Mr. Standing, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1905, p.58 Marion Henry Spielmann, ‘ Laurence Alma-Tadema, R.A., A Sketch’ in Magazine of Art, November 1896-April 1897, p.50 įedor Il’ich Bulgakov, Alma-Tadema, 1897, opposite p,22, illustrated p.28 William Cosmo Monkhouse, ‘Laurens Alma-Tadema R.A.’, in Scribners Magazine, December 1895, illustrated p.677 įrederick George Stephens, Laurence Alma-Tadema, R.A., A Sketch of his Life and Work, 1895, illustrated Plate III Letts Household Magazine, 1891, illustrated p.79 Wilfred Meynell, Some Modern Artists and their Work, 1887, p.17 Helen Zimmern, The Great Modern Painters, English, French, German etc., Medalist of successive Universal Exhibitions II, 1886, illustrated p.273 Alma-Tadema – Royal Academician: His Life and Works’, in Art Journal, Christmas supplement, 1886, p.11

Georg Moritz Ebers, ‘Lourens Alma Tadema’, in Westermanns Illustrierte Deutsche Monatschefte fur das Gesamte Geistige Leben der Gegenwart, pp.77-8 Illustrated London News, 6 April 1878, p.326 Carel Vosmaer, ‘Venus Esquilina’, in de Nederlandsche Spectator, 1877, pp.371-2

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