Re:Watercolors that were warnings
by motoford on Monday March 07, 2016 @11:13PM
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I thought there would be at least one watercolor, or one warning. I was wrong.
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There were several watercolours, including the images above these captions:
- "Francis Towne’s 1780 watercolour of a ruined tomb on the road from Rome signified the transience of human achievement (Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)"
- "Towne’s 1780 watercolour Inside the Colosseum is a study of the Roman Empire’s decay (Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)"
- "Towne’s 1781 watercolour of Tivoli’s Villa of Maecenas is dominated by a wild, natural landscape (Credit: The Trustees of the British Museum)"