View of the Island of Capri from the ruins of Pollios Villa, 1775
Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1795
Materials
Watercolour on paper
Measurements
508 x 635 mm (20 x 25 in.)
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 515865
Summary
Watercolour on paper, View of the Island of Capri from the ruins of Pollios Villa,1775 by Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824). Loaned to Ickworth, West Dressing Room
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Marks and inscriptions
Signed within artist’s mount, bottom left: Eliza [?] Foster [? Both names gone over with a heavy pen] Fecit 1795 [or 1775] Inscribed on mount: A View of the Island of Capria from the Ruins of Pollios Villa near Naples
Makers and roles
Lady Elizabeth Christiana Hervey, Duchess of Devonshire (Lady Elizabeth Foster) (1759-1824), artist