Greenwich Hospital, The Painted Hall
Medium
Hand-colored etching and aquatint
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 13/16 × 11 7/16 in. (25 × 29.1 cm) Plate: 9 5/16 × 10 15/16 in. (23.6 × 27.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959
Accession Number
59.533.1671(61)
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the grandeur of Greenwich Hospital's Painted Hall through this exquisite 1810 hand-colored etching and aquatint, a collaborative masterpiece by illustrators Thomas Rowlandson, Auguste Charles Pugin, and John Bluck, published by Rudolph Ackermann in London. Part of Ackermann's acclaimed *Microcosm of London series, this print vividly captures the opulent Baroque interior of the hall at the former Royal Hospital for Seamen—today's Old Royal Naval College. The vast space, adorned with Sir James Thornhill's monumental ceiling paintings celebrating British naval triumphs, served as a dini...
About the Artist
John Bluck|Thomas Rowlandson|Auguste Charles Pugin|Rudolph Ackermann, London (British, French|British|British) · 1768 |1757 |1791 –1832 |1827 |1832
British (born France), Paris 1768/69–1832 London|British, London 1757–1827 London|British, 1791–1832