View of the East Front of the Wonderful Natural Bridge at Veja / Vue du Merveilleux Pont Naturel de Veja

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Archibald Robertson was an ‘Honorary Exhibitor’ (also referred to as an ‘Honorary Member’) when he exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1772 to 1796. In 1772 he exhibited a work titled ‘A View of the wonderful bridge of Veja, in the Veronese Mountains, of solid marble, the arch of which measures about 120 feet’. This print, which Robertson may have engraved after the work exhibited at the Academy, is from a series of 17 aquatints, issued under the title ‘Short Descriptive Account of the Pyrenean Part of Bigorre’ between 1783 and 1787.

Places

Italy, Ponte di Veja, Verona

Subjects

topography, genre, horse, river, rock formation, man, road, bridge (rural)

Materials & Techniques

etching, aquatint

Artist

Archibald Robertson

Title

View of the East Front of the Wonderful Natural Bridge at Veja / Vue du Merveilleux Pont Naturel de Veja

Date

1783-1787

Medium

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions

height: 38.90 cm, width: 52.10 cm

Acquisition

Transferred from the British Museum, July 1946

Provenance

Collection of the British Museum; by whom transferred to the Ministry of Works in 1946

GAC number

207