Scene with Family and Guest in Seventeenth-century Interior
Joseph Nash
1825–78
Medium
Watercolor over graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 7 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (19.4 x 25.1 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959
Accession Number
59.644.33
Tags
InteriorsChildrenMenWomenFamily
About the Artist
Joseph Nash · 1809–1878
Joseph Nash (1809–1878) was a British watercolorist and lithographer whose richly detailed depictions of English medieval and Tudor architecture established him as one of the most accomplished architectural illustrators of the Victorian era. Born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Nash trained under Augustus Charles Pugin, the distinguished architectural draughtsman and father of the Gothic Revival...