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

Archibald Robertson

Etching and aquatint

1783-1787
  • About the work
    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.

  • Explore
  • Details
    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