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Human-Made Object
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drawing
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watercolor
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Drawing & Watercolor-Architectural
"Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli
"
The Arch at Tripoli
Inscribed in red pencil, upper left: "30"; in graphite, upper center: "No 26"; inscribed on verso in pen and black ink, upper left: "Arch at Tripoli | James Bruce | del."
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.8844
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110163313
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
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19 1/4 × 25 3/4 inches (48.9 × 65.4 cm)
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James Bruce, 1730–1794, British
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James Bruce of Kinnaird
Abyssinian Bruce
James Bruce
Bruce James, 1730–1794
James Bruce, 1730–1794
James Bruce, 1730–1794
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British
1730
1794
male
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Artist
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traveler
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painter
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British
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1761
1771
22
18th century
Pen and black ink, gray wash, and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured,cream laid paper
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laid paper
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watercolor
black ink
red pencil
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)
631
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/651
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exhibition
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
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British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
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Curator
2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28
2008-02-07
2008-04-28
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
To complement The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, the Center organized the exhibition Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830, drawn from the collections of the Center, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and other libraries at Yale University. This exhibition explored intersections between British visual culture and the countries of the eastern Mediterranean beginning in the early seventeenth century, when political and economic shifts enabled Britain to reassert itself as a dominant participant in the Mediterranean trade that had long been monopolized by Venice. The exhibition introduced the geographical and historical context of the Mediterranean trade with paintings by Peter Lely and the William van de Veldes (father and son), and through early travel accounts that both expressed and inspired fascination with Eastern societies. The impact of commodities such as coffee and silk was examined through prints, broadsides, and illustrated books. Selections from the Center’s diverse holdings reflected the burgeoning interest in the classical and biblical sites of the Near and Middle East that took hold in the eighteenth century, from works by Benjamin West and J. M. W. Turner to architectural drawings made during scholarly expeditions. The exhibition concluded with an examination of the increasingly militaristic cast to British presence in the Levant in the nineteenth century, beginning with visual responses to Nelson’s victory over Napoleon in Egypt. — —
Credits — —
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 was curated by Eleanor Hughes, Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center, with assistance from Sarah Kinkel, doctoral candidate in History at Yale University.
Yale Center for British Art
15380
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V 2576 (YCBA)
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300054686
publication event
^Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels]^, Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 40, V 2576 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
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publication event
^Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
ycba_actor_1281
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Yale Center for British Art
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Publisher
2008
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acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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British Art Center
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1977
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gift
James Bruce (1730-1794) was the laird of Kinnaird, in Scotland, and the owner of coal mines that were lucrative enough to fund his travels. In April 1762 Bruce left England to take up the post of consul-general at Algiers with a commission to study and make drawings of the classical ruins of Algiers and Tunis for the collection of George III. He spent some time in Italy honing his artistic skills and building up a collection of books and scientific instruments to take with him before proceeding to Algiers, where he failed in his diplomatic mission to restore the system of safe passes that had protected British ships from attack by Barbary corsairs. He then hired Luigi Balugani, an Italian artist, to assist in making drawings of the Roman ruins at Algiers and Tunis (which Bruce would claim as his own work), and the two set off for Crete, only to be shipwrecked and robbed of much of their equipment. Having visited Baalbek and Palmyra and replaced their scientific instruments, Bruce and Balugani set off on an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, some of the results of which are displayed in the final section of this exhibition.
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Gallery label
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architectural subject
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 40, V 2576 (YCBA)
8110851
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Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Public Domain
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Item
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Yale Center for British Art
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https://manifests.collections.yale.edu/ycba/obj/15380
IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art