
A two sided drawing with one side depicting a ruin with a track leading up to a series of arches on a hillside, the ruins overgrown with trees and bushes (illustrated) and the verso depicting a complex of ruined arched buildings overgrown with bushes on a mound with rocks infront. One of a group of 6 topographical drawings by Edmund Becker presented to the British Museum by Archdeacon F H D Smythe through the Art Fund in 1948.
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Title of artwork, date
Studies of ruins, 1849-1859
Date supported
1948
Medium and material
Pen, indian ink & grey wash
Dimensions
23 x 17 cm
Gifted by
Archdeacon F H D Smythe

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